Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Genocide Guatemala

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dc.contributor.authorCopeland, Nicholas M.en
dc.coverage.countryGuatemalaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-13T15:47:01Zen
dc.date.available2023-02-13T15:47:01Zen
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.date.updated2023-02-11T16:46:15Zen
dc.description.abstractHow do Indigenous and peasant political paradigms interact? This essay examines the relationship between Indigenous-ontopolitical critiques of development and peasant-oriented demands for alternative development in the Guatemalan defense of territory (DT), an Indigenous-led alliance against extractive development. Drawing on politically-engaged ethnographic and historical fieldwork, I argue that theories that counterpose indigenous ecological values of reciprocity and human-nature interrelatedness to “development” oversimplify Indigenous responses to the multi-dimensional nature of colonization. I describe how cosmological critiques coexist with demands for progressive (redistributive) extraction and agrarian struggles for food sovereignty and integral development. I suggest that the ascendance of post-development critiques crowds out demands for anticolonial development in the DT, limiting its potential to present a compelling alternative for poor communities. I point to a convergence between ontopolitical critique and counterinsurgency and propose holding critiques and demands for development in creative tension to strengthen decolonial struggles.en
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dc.identifier.issn0094-582Xen
dc.identifier.orcidCopeland, Nicholas [0000-0002-4124-6766]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113815en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGEen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcritique of developmenten
dc.subjectextractivismen
dc.subjectbuen viviren
dc.subjectfood sovereigntyen
dc.subjectGuatemalaen
dc.titleDevelopment and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Genocide Guatemalaen
dc.title.serialLatin American Perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialismen
dc.typeArticleen
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