Community forest concessionaires
Resisting green grabs and producing political subjects in Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer A Devine (0000-0001-8122-2809) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 565-584 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2016.1215305 |
| OpenAlex | W2526408609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 40 |
In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere. The fight over this space, the Mirador Basin, provides valuable contributions to analyses of global land grabs, grassroots politics and power relations underpinning environmental governance. First, the fight for the Mirador Basin illustrates how green land grabs create new natures, rather than simply enclosing existing green spaces. Second, it contributes to recent scholarship detailing land-grabbing practices of resistance, acquiescence and incorporation 'from below' by describing how Maya Biosphere community forest concessionaires were able to reverse a green grab. Lastly, I argue this successful reversal largely rests on the articulation and mobilization of a new rights-bearing subject - the forest concessionaire. Struggles for land in the Maya Biosphere illustrate that practices and relations of green governance do not always create disciplined, neo-liberal, green subjects. Rather, community forestry has provided a political platform turning reserve residents into influential actors participating in the re-territorialization of power in contemporary Guatemala
Archaeology · Business · Corporate governance · Deforestation (computer science · Environmental governance · Geography · Grassroots · Land grabbing · Land tenure · Maya · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Finance
Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential
Thirty years of community forest management in the maya biosphere reserve
Community perceptions on land and water acquisitions in the Okavango Delta
The Dark Side of Ruins in Ancient Maya Living Landscapes
Accumulation by Securitisation in Tourism
Indebted by dispossession
Biofuel feedstock plantations closure and land abandonment in Ghana
Do laws provoke or prevent green grabbing? A systematic review
Drones, communities and nature
Grounding drones in political ecology
Community Engagement around the Maya Archaeological Site of Ceibal, Guatemala
Trends in research on forestry decentralization policies
Green grabbing implications for human rights, equity and the ecological transition
Pursuing an Indigenous Platform
Is community tenure facilitating investment in the commons for inclusive and sustainable development
Influence of property rights on performance of community-based forest devolution policies in Honduras
Challenging conventional wisdom on illicit economies and rural development in Latin America
The politics of participation
Linking actors and scales by green grabbing in Bozbük and Kazıklı
Drug trafficking, cattle ranching and Land use and Land cover change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
The Political Forest in the Era of Green Neoliberalism
Producing an Extractive Frontier
Narco‐Cattle Ranching in Political Forests
The new politics and geographies of scarcity
Social networks and the resilient livelihood strategies of Dara-ang women in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Reborn in Guate”
Between monitoring and surveillance
Hydro/Power? Politics, Discourse and Neoliberalization in Laos's Hydroelectric Development
Evolving Social Movement Strategies Against Green Grabbing
As the drone flies
The socioenvironmental state
Resilience and conflict
Hybrid hilltops
The Will to Improve
Forest Society
Environmentality
Communal Forests, Political Spaces
Palaeolimnological evidence of late-Holocene settlement and abandonment in the Mirador Basin, Peten, Guatemala
But Is It a Basin? Science, Controversy, and Conspiracy in the Fight for Mirador, Guatemala
Violent visions of an ownership society
Land concentration and land grabbing in Europe
Land control-grabbing in Guatemala
Eliminating market distortions, perpetuating rural inequality
Of Centaurs and Doves
Eco-governmentality revisited
Green governmentality
Global Land Grabs
Tourism Imaginaries
Counterinsurgency Ecotourism in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Seeing Like a State
Constructing an Environmental State
The Defence of Community in the Anti-Mining Movement of Guatemala
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space
Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions 'from below
Space for pluralism? Examining the Malibya land grab
Politics from below? Small-, mid- and large-scale land dispossession in Teso, Uganda, and the relevance of scale
Anything but a story foretold
Guerrilla agriculture? A biopolitical guide to illicit cultivation within an IUCN Category II protected area
Listening to their silence? The political reaction of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions
The right to resist
Land grabbing, legal contention and institutional change in Colombia
Between the bullet and the bank
Green Grabbing
Tourism and the politics of the global land grab in Tanzania
Green pretexts
Challenges posed by the new wave of farmland investment
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing
Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |