Strategies for authenticity, space, and place in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala

Auteur :
SUNDBERG, J.

Description :
A. explores how different conservationist groups are engaged in a discursive struggle for control of the Maya Biosphere Reserve and its natural resources. Her fieldwork there revealed that certain individuals were appropriating conservationist discourses, which are treated as the unvarnished truth, to reposition themselves in relation to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which are prominent social and political institutions in the Reserve. Farmers, forest collectors, and recent immigrants in the Reserve are discussed. - (SLD)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist geographers, 1998, vol. 24, p. 85-96, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 42 ref.

Date :
1998

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis