NGO Landscapes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4487971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juanita Sundberg (Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 388-412 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1998.tb00114.x |
| OpenAlex | W2041515374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 31 |
Political dimensions of conservation abound. The biosphere-reserve model, however, depoliticizes the landscape by neglecting politics as a shaper of ecologies. To illustrate this process of depoliticization, I examine discourses about environmental degradation, power structures engaged in implementing conservation measures, and emerging landscapes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Conservationist discourses hold migrant farmers responsible for deforestation and land degradation in the Petén, to the neglect of wider socioeconomic conditions that perpetuate poverty in Guatemala. Sociospatial consequences include misdirected projects and landscapes that reflect the goals of nongovernmental organizations, not local people's needs and aspirations
Archaeology · Biosphere · Deforestation (computer science · Environmental degradation · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Maya · Neglect · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Parks and Peoples
Science for Place-based Socioecological Management
Agroecología en la periferia
Tourists‘ and Locals‘ Preferences Toward Ecotourism Development in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Wilderness ethics and political ecology
Conservation and democratization
When Participation Meets Empowerment
Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement
Key factors driving attitudes towards large mammals in conflict with humans
The Dynamics of Agricultural Intensification and Resource Conservation in the Buffer Zone of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala
Uneven territorial sponsorship
The Political Ecology of Geopiety
Placing Race in Environmental Justice Research in Latin America
Seeing beyond the frames we inherit
"Beyond Development"
Mountain Geography
Colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies
Caring for Xate, caring for Xateros
Campesino justification for self-initiated conservation actions
Latin American Social Movements
Secondary level organisations and the democratisation of forest governance
Climate change impacts, conservation and protected values
Doing ′Conservation
When collective action and tenure allocations collide
Land regularization on agricultural frontiers
Los itzaes y el discurso conservacionista
A Framework for Evaluating Forest Conservation Implications of Community-based Capacity Building
Relations de pouvoir et gestion durable des ressources dans la Zona Maya du Quintana Roo, Mexique
The Geographical Review's Historical Dimensions and Recentism
Wither Physical Geography
Going out and going green
Facing fear
Measuring performance under a landscape approach to biodiversity conservation
But Is It a Basin? Science, Controversy, and Conspiracy in the Fight for Mirador, Guatemala
Social Participation in Conservation Efforts
Beyond the Square Wheel
Conservation, community, and culture? New organizational challenges of community forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala
NGOs and uneven development
The politics of participation
Paper Works
Shared Social License
The Mesquite Economy in the Mexican-American Borderlands
Conservation regimes of exclusion
A century and counting
Tigers, trees and Tharu
Raw hides
A tale of two roads
Territorial cleansing’ for whom? Indigenous rights, conservation, and state territorialization in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua
Defining the forest, defending the forest
Winning back more than words? Power, discourse and quarrying on the Niagara Escarpment
Inter‐Indigenous development aid
Fixing” the Forest
Tactics and strategies in political ecology research
Against the local trap
The Nature of Gender
Identities in the making
Taming the jungle, saving the Maya Forest
Social and River Networks for the Trees
The Cranes of Caohai and Other Incidents of Fieldwork in Southwestern China
Progressive Geopolitics
Development of protected areas
Ethnographies of Power
Remote Sensing as a Tool for Tropical Ecology
A geographer looks at the landscape, once more
Local People and Conservation in Mexico's El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve
The State of Exception and the Imperial Way of Life in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
Social Capital, Development, and Indigenous Politics in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Road Mapping
Back to the Future
Por qué Quédate
Refugees of a hidden war
Gift of the devil
Fragile Lands of Latin America
Rich Forests, Poor PeopleResource Control and Resistance in Java
Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America
Colonising Egypt
Forest Society
Mayan Urbanism
Land Degradation and Society
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Anti-Politics Machine
Third World Political Ecology
Direct to the Poor
Forest change estimates for the northern Petén region of Guatemala — 1986–1990
Regenerating People's Space
Mrs. Brundtland's Disenchanted Cosmos
Unfinished Conquest
Political ecology
Ecopolitics and Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America
Imperialism, Revolution, and the Ecological Crisis of Central America
The Militarization of Civil Society in Guatemala
Local Struggles over Rain-Forest Conservation in Alaska and Amazonia
Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation
Unfinished Conquest
Poverty, Natural Resources, and Public Policy in Central America
Encountering Development
Anthropology and the development encounter
Milpas and Milperos
| Unique citing works | 70 |
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| Citations per year | 3,85 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 96 |