Marcos Mendoza

The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a vivid and accessible investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research, Marcos Mendoza examines the social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780813596754
• ISBN-10: 0813596750
• Artikelnr.: 51494785

Autorenporträt

Marcos Mendoza is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Acronyms
List of Spanish Terms
List of Images
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Sphere of Tourism Consumption
1          Alpine-Style Mountaineering: Resolve and Death in the Andes
2          Adventure Trekking: Pursuing the Alpine Sublime
Part Two: The Sphere of Service Production
3          Comerciante Entrepreneurship: Investment Hazard and Ethical
Laboring
4          Golondrina Laboring: Informality and Play
            Part Three: The Sphere of the Conservation State
5          Community-Based Conservation: Land Managers and State-Civil
Society Collaborations
6          Conservation Policing: Education and Environmental Impacts
            Part Four: The Politics of the Green Economy
7          Defending Popular Sustainability in la Comuna
8          Kirchnerismo and the Politics of the Green Economy
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author