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conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest
xii, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples, and the land itself, in their calls for a material decolonization.
Introduction: Conservation and settler logics of elimination -- Making the Maya Forest -- We didn't invade the park, the park invaded us -- Rethinking Ladinos as settlers -- Taxing the Kaxlan: Q'eqchi' self-determination within and beyond the Settler State -- Narco-narratives and twenty-first-century Green Wars -- Conclusion: Decolonizing the Maya Forest, and beyond.
Includes bibliographical references and index.