(Mis)trusting development : social struggles and forest conservation in Guatemala / Margit Ystanes.
2021
SD414.G9 Y73 2021
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Title
(Mis)trusting development : social struggles and forest conservation in Guatemala / Margit Ystanes.
Author
Ystanes, Margit, author.
ISBN
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9783030893200 (electronic bk.)
3030893200 (electronic bk.)
9783030893194 (hardcover)
3030893197 (hardcover)
9783030893200 (electronic bk.)
3030893200 (electronic bk.)
9783030893194 (hardcover)
3030893197 (hardcover)
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
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10.1007/978-3-030-89320-0 doi
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SD414.G9 Y73 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.7516097281
Summary
This book explores the role of trust in social struggles related to tropical forest preservation in El Peten, Guatemala. The author combines ethnographic exploration of how trust is formed in the local context with insights about postcolonial inequalities, which structure discourses on development and climate change in ways that exclude local actors. Empirically, the book follows the complicated engagements of local concession-holding forest communities with outside actors aiming to develop archaeology-based tourism in Guatemalas Maya Biosphere Reserve. A central argument presented is that processes initiated for societal improvement need to be based on trusting relationships in order to be successful. This requires a context sensitive approach that takes into consideration how trust is formed and undermined in specific lifeworlds, as well as postcolonial inequalities. Theoretically, the book expands existing conceptualisations of trust and emphasises the potential for ethnographic research to further our understanding of this elusive phenomenon. Margit Ystanes is Associate Professor at Volda University College, Norway. The present work represents a further development and confluence of two lines of research represented by Ystaness two co-edited volumes, Trusting and Its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (with Vigdis Broch-Due, 2016) and The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change (with Iselin Asedotter Strnen, 2018).
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: (Mis)trusting Development
Chapter 2. Trusting Self and Others
Chapter 3. The Forestry Process
Chapter 4. Narratives of Tourism and Conservation
Chapter 5. Building Cooperation
Chapter 6. (Mis)trusting the Process.-Chapter 7.Conclusions: Trusting and Sustainable Development.
Chapter 2. Trusting Self and Others
Chapter 3. The Forestry Process
Chapter 4. Narratives of Tourism and Conservation
Chapter 5. Building Cooperation
Chapter 6. (Mis)trusting the Process.-Chapter 7.Conclusions: Trusting and Sustainable Development.