Identities in the making
Conservation, gender and race in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5809809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juanita Sundberg (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-66 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Place & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0966369042000188549 |
| OpenAlex | W1966962062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 140 |
| References cited | 60 |
This article examines how the daily discourses, practices, and performances of conservation projects are instrumental in mapping ways of life that are gendered and racialized. With the goal of bringing a feminist approach to the study of conservation, I present an ethnographic account of identities-in-the-making in three conservation encounters in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in northern Guatemala. In the first two encounters, I examine the ways in which gender and race are constituted in the relations between the Women's Group for the Rescue of Itza' Medicinal Plants and a United States-based international environmental non-governmental organization. The third encounter highlights the relations between the Women's Group and myself, the researcher, to analyze how social-science, through methods such as ethnography, is also implicated in (re)configuring social identities
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| Unique citing works | 140 |
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| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 138 |