@article{1441752,
      recid = {1441752},
      author = {Ystanes, Margit,},
      title = {(Mis)trusting development : social struggles and forest  conservation in Guatemala /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {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).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441752},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89320-0},
}