Ana Isla

The Greening of Costa Rica

Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781442649361
• ISBN-10: 1442649364
• Artikelnr.: 42031349

Autorenporträt

Ana Isla is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Introduction
Part I: Embodied Foreign Debt in the National System of Conservation Areas
1 - Political Economy: Building Costa Rica’s Neo-liberal State
2 - Political Ecology: Debt-for-Nature and Its Experts
Part II: Embodied Debt-for-Nature: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and
the Remaking of Nature
3 – The Land Plan in Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area: New Natures and New
Workers in Fortuna, Z-Trece, Abanico, and Miramar
4 - Genetics as a Site of Biotechnology or Biopiracy: Dispossession of
Indigenous Peoples’ and Peasants’ Knowledge
5 – Forests as Carbon Sinks: Dispossession of Peasant Access to the Forest
6 - Scenery as Eco-tourism: Dispossession of Peasant Agricultural Land and
the Rise of Prostitution
7 - Medicinal Plants in Micro-enterprises: The Dispossession of Rural
Women’s Labour and Knowledge
8 - Mountains as Open-Pit Mining Sites: Dispossession of Peasants’ Water
and Livelihood
9 – The Need for Alternative Relations