Chelsea Fisher

Rooting in a Useless Land (eBook, ePUB)

Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. She draws on her innovative archaeological research in Yaxunah, an Indigenous Maya farming community dealing with land dispossession, but with a surprising twist: Yaxunah happens to be entangled with prestigious sustainable-development projects initiated by some of the most famous chefs in the world. Fisher contends that these sustainable-development initiatives inadvertently bolster the useless-land narrative-a colonial belief that Maya forests are empty wastelands-which has been driving Indigenous land dispossession and environmental injustice for centuries. Rooting in a Useless Land explores how archaeology, practiced within communities, can restore history and strengthen relationships built on contested ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520395886
• Artikelnr.: 67773779

Autorenporträt

Chelsea Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina.