Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520295162)

Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala's Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation efforts have turned Q'eqchi' Mayas into immigrants on their own land, and how this is part of a larger national effort to make Indigenous peoples into neoliberal citizens. Even as Q'eqchi's participate in conservation, Green Wars amplifies their call for material decolonization by recognizing the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land itself.

Author: Megan Ybarra
ISBN-10: 0520295161
ISBN-13: 9780520295162
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2017
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018