Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic inequality, and rapid deforestation. Faced with these threats, local residents, conservationists, scientists, and NGOs in the region work within what Micha Rahder calls “an ecology of knowledges,” in which interventions on the MBR landscape are tied to differing and sometimes competing forms of knowing. In this book, Rahder examines how technoscience, endemic violence, and an embodied love of wild species and places shape conservation practices in Guatemala. Rahder highlights how different forms of environmental knowledge emerge from encounters and relations between humans and nonhumans, institutions and local actors, and how situated ways of knowing impact conservation practices and natural places, often in unexpected and unintended ways. In so doing, she opens up new ways of thinking about the complexities of environmental knowledge and conservation in the context of instability, inequality, and violence around the world.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION / What on Earth Is a Nooscape?
- LEARNING HOW TO SEE
- ONE / The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve
- SILENCES OF MEMORY
- I. Double Visions: Technoscience and Paranoia
- TWO / Eye of the Storm
- CORRUPTED DATA
- THREE / Mapping Gobernabilidad
- GENDER AND VIOLENCE
- FOUR / But Is It a Basin?
- PETENEROS AND OTHER ENDEMIC SPECIES
- II. Patchiness and Fragmentation
- FIVE / A Reserve Full of Rooftops
- PARKS, POVERTY, PEOPLE
- SIX / Fire at the Edge of the Forest
- DEATH OF A DOG
- III. Composing and Composting Knowledges
- SEVEN / A Known Place
- CERTAINTY EMERGES
- EIGHT / Wild Life
- APOCALYPSE SOON!
- NINE / REDD+ Queen Futures
- MODEST INTERVENTIONS
- AFTERWORD
- Notes
- References
- Index
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