Nicholas Copeland
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 120306 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas Copeland |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas |
| SOBRENOME | Copeland |
| ASSINATURA | COPELAND N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4124-6766 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Anti-plantation science
How do peasant organizations use citizen science? What challenges do plantations pose for citizen science? This article examines anti-plantation citizen science: data collection by laypeople to demonstrate the violence of plantations, challenge their hegemony, and counter plantation science. We examine the water science initiatives of a food sovereignty and water rights alliance on Guatemala’s southern coast. We draw on STS perspectives on citize…
Sea lice or subsistence? Peasant multispecies justice in the plantationocene
Sea lice pose serious problems for the fish farming industry, subsistence livelihoods, ecosystem health, and multispecies flourishing. This ethnographic essay examines the reaction of subsistence fishers on Guatemala's Pacific coast to a sea lice infestation in an estuary caused by an industrial shrimp farm to intervene in discussions of multi-species justice. We bring scholarship on multispecies relations into dialogue with theories of the Plant…
Water for Life
Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Peace Guatemala
How 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 val…
Politicizing water
Liberation extension
A New Deal for Central America
In 2016, thousands across Guatemala joined the March for Water, Mother Earth, Territory, and Life to decry the privatization and contamination of water through extractive development. Convened by G
The Neoliberal Diet
The Democracy Development Machine
What forces hinder decolonization efforts on the neoliberal terrain? In the aftermath of a genocidal scorched earth campaign, Mayas in the town of San Pedro Necta encountered a formidable democracy-development machine designed to displace radical class politics into private market advancement and local, indigenous-led electoral politics. Sampedranos regarded neoliberal democracy and development not as empty, depoliticized forms or colonial imposi…
The Democracy Development Machine
The Democracy Development Machine
and the Association of Research Libraries.TOME aims to expand the reach of long-form humanities and social science scholarship including digital scholarship.
Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty
Food sovereignty and the defence of territory are increasingly influential environmental paradigms for rural social movements in opposition to free market hegemony in the global south. These paradigms propose radical alternatives to growth based economies, unequal property regimes, and the absolute territorial sovereignty of nation states. Drawing on fieldwork in rural Guatemala with progressive NGOs and social movements, this essay describes the…
Democracy
Commonly understood as rule of, by, and for the people, democracy is a rich and growing field of anthropological inquiry. Rather than promoting liberal democracy as a norm or viewing all democracies as essentially the same, anthropologists examine democracy as a globally circulating discourse and investigate the variety of imaginaries, projects, and lived experiences of democracy that emerge in diverse settings. Their investigations defamiliarize…
Meeting peasants where they are
Social movements increasingly embrace agroecology as an integral part of food sovereignty. This essay has two related aims: first, to highlight the barriers to agroecology and explore how these can be overcome; second, to deepen understandings of how agroecology can strengthen movements for food sovereignty or extend neoliberal governance. I ground these questions by examining state and social movement agroecological programs in Guatemala. I argu…
Regarding development
Nicholas Copeland* Nicholas Copeland studied Social Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His book manuscript is titled Lost in transition: Mayan experiences of democracy in post-revolutionary Guatemala. He also wrote (with Christine Labuski) The world of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American dream (Routled…
Mayan imaginaries of democracy
Mayan farmers in rural northwest Guatemala perceive the U.S. Department of Agriculture fruit-fly eradication program, MOSCAMED, as a government and agribusiness scheme designed to addict them to agrochemicals by despoiling subsistence agriculture. This bitterly accusative view depicts the state, capital, and U.S. government as interlinked sovereigns willing to kill and harm hapless Mayas. Considering political processes in the town of San Pedro N…
Greening the Counterinsurgency
This article examines the role of USAID's 1970 Rural Development Plan (RDP) for Guatemala in normalizing US military support for the Guatemalan government despite concerns about excessive state violence in the late 1960s. I argue that the RDP presented a depoliticized vision of Guatemala's agrarian problem and generated optimism that this problem could be resolved through market mechanisms and within the existing social order. Rather than promoti…
Meeting peasants where they are
Social movements increasingly embrace agroecology as an integral part of food sovereignty. This essay has two related aims: first, to highlight the barriers to agroecology and explore how these can be overcome; second, to deepen understandings of how agroecology can strengthen movements for food sovereignty or extend neoliberal governance. I ground these questions by examining state and social movement agroecological programs in Guatemala. I argu…
Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty
Food sovereignty and the defence of territory are increasingly influential environmental paradigms for rural social movements in opposition to free market hegemony in the global south. These paradigms propose radical alternatives to growth based economies, unequal property regimes, and the absolute territorial sovereignty of nation states. Drawing on fieldwork in rural Guatemala with progressive NGOs and social movements, this essay describes the…
Mayan imaginaries of democracy
Mayan farmers in rural northwest Guatemala perceive the U.S. Department of Agriculture fruit-fly eradication program, MOSCAMED, as a government and agribusiness scheme designed to addict them to agrochemicals by despoiling subsistence agriculture. This bitterly accusative view depicts the state, capital, and U.S. government as interlinked sovereigns willing to kill and harm hapless Mayas. Considering political processes in the town of San Pedro N…
Greening the Counterinsurgency
This article examines the role of USAID's 1970 Rural Development Plan (RDP) for Guatemala in normalizing US military support for the Guatemalan government despite concerns about excessive state violence in the late 1960s. I argue that the RDP presented a depoliticized vision of Guatemala's agrarian problem and generated optimism that this problem could be resolved through market mechanisms and within the existing social order. Rather than promoti…
Politicizing water
Regarding development
Nicholas Copeland* Nicholas Copeland studied Social Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His book manuscript is titled Lost in transition: Mayan experiences of democracy in post-revolutionary Guatemala. He also wrote (with Christine Labuski) The world of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American dream (Routled…
Sea lice or subsistence? Peasant multispecies justice in the plantationocene
Sea lice pose serious problems for the fish farming industry, subsistence livelihoods, ecosystem health, and multispecies flourishing. This ethnographic essay examines the reaction of subsistence fishers on Guatemala's Pacific coast to a sea lice infestation in an estuary caused by an industrial shrimp farm to intervene in discussions of multi-species justice. We bring scholarship on multispecies relations into dialogue with theories of the Plant…
Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Peace Guatemala
How 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 val…
The Neoliberal Diet
Greening the Counterinsurgency
This article examines the role of USAID's 1970 Rural Development Plan (RDP) for Guatemala in normalizing US military support for the Guatemalan government despite concerns about excessive state violence in the late 1960s. I argue that the RDP presented a depoliticized vision of Guatemala's agrarian problem and generated optimism that this problem could be resolved through market mechanisms and within the existing social order. Rather than promoti…
Mayan imaginaries of democracy
Mayan farmers in rural northwest Guatemala perceive the U.S. Department of Agriculture fruit-fly eradication program, MOSCAMED, as a government and agribusiness scheme designed to addict them to agrochemicals by despoiling subsistence agriculture. This bitterly accusative view depicts the state, capital, and U.S. government as interlinked sovereigns willing to kill and harm hapless Mayas. Considering political processes in the town of San Pedro N…
Regarding development
Nicholas Copeland* Nicholas Copeland studied Social Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His book manuscript is titled Lost in transition: Mayan experiences of democracy in post-revolutionary Guatemala. He also wrote (with Christine Labuski) The world of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American dream (Routled…
Democracy
Commonly understood as rule of, by, and for the people, democracy is a rich and growing field of anthropological inquiry. Rather than promoting liberal democracy as a norm or viewing all democracies as essentially the same, anthropologists examine democracy as a globally circulating discourse and investigate the variety of imaginaries, projects, and lived experiences of democracy that emerge in diverse settings. Their investigations defamiliarize…
Meeting peasants where they are
Social movements increasingly embrace agroecology as an integral part of food sovereignty. This essay has two related aims: first, to highlight the barriers to agroecology and explore how these can be overcome; second, to deepen understandings of how agroecology can strengthen movements for food sovereignty or extend neoliberal governance. I ground these questions by examining state and social movement agroecological programs in Guatemala. I argu…
The Democracy Development Machine
What forces hinder decolonization efforts on the neoliberal terrain? In the aftermath of a genocidal scorched earth campaign, Mayas in the town of San Pedro Necta encountered a formidable democracy-development machine designed to displace radical class politics into private market advancement and local, indigenous-led electoral politics. Sampedranos regarded neoliberal democracy and development not as empty, depoliticized forms or colonial imposi…
The Democracy Development Machine
The Democracy Development Machine
and the Association of Research Libraries.TOME aims to expand the reach of long-form humanities and social science scholarship including digital scholarship.
Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty
Food sovereignty and the defence of territory are increasingly influential environmental paradigms for rural social movements in opposition to free market hegemony in the global south. These paradigms propose radical alternatives to growth based economies, unequal property regimes, and the absolute territorial sovereignty of nation states. Drawing on fieldwork in rural Guatemala with progressive NGOs and social movements, this essay describes the…
A New Deal for Central America
In 2016, thousands across Guatemala joined the March for Water, Mother Earth, Territory, and Life to decry the privatization and contamination of water through extractive development. Convened by G
The Neoliberal Diet
Liberation extension
Politicizing water
Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Peace Guatemala
How 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 val…
Water for Life
Anti-plantation science
How do peasant organizations use citizen science? What challenges do plantations pose for citizen science? This article examines anti-plantation citizen science: data collection by laypeople to demonstrate the violence of plantations, challenge their hegemony, and counter plantation science. We examine the water science initiatives of a food sovereignty and water rights alliance on Guatemala’s southern coast. We draw on STS perspectives on citize…
Sea lice or subsistence? Peasant multispecies justice in the plantationocene
Sea lice pose serious problems for the fish farming industry, subsistence livelihoods, ecosystem health, and multispecies flourishing. This ethnographic essay examines the reaction of subsistence fishers on Guatemala's Pacific coast to a sea lice infestation in an estuary caused by an industrial shrimp farm to intervene in discussions of multi-species justice. We bring scholarship on multispecies relations into dialogue with theories of the Plant…
Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Political economy (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Development economics (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Democracy (5 obras) · Indigenous (5 obras)