The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813596754)

The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid, accessible, and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chalt n, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy.

Mendoza explores the fraught intersection of the green economy with the New Left politics of the N stor Kirchner and Cristina Fern ndez de Kirchner governments. Mendoza documents the strategies of capitalist development, national representation, and political rule embedded in the "green productivist" agenda pursued by Kirchner and Fern ndez. Mendoza shows how Andean Patagonian communities have responded to the challenges of community-based conservation, the fashioning of wilderness zones, and the drive to create place-based monopolies that allow ecotourism destinations to compete in the global consumer economy.

Author: Marcos Mendoza
ISBN-10: 0813596750
ISBN-13: 9780813596754
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2018
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d