{"product_id":"an-ecology-of-knowledges-9781478006107","title":"An Ecology of Knowledges","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuatemala''s Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic inequality, and rapid deforestation. Faced with these threats, local residents, conservationists, scientists, and NGOs in the region work within what Micha Rahder calls “an ecology of knowledges,” in which interventions on the MBR landscape are tied to differing and sometimes competing forms of knowing. In this book, Rahder examines how technoscience, endemic violence, and an embodied love of wild species and places shape conservation practices in Guatemala. Rahder highlights how different forms of environmental knowledge emerge from encounters and relations between humans and nonhumans, institutions and local actors, and how situated ways of knowing impact conservation practices and natural places, often in unexpected and unintended ways. In so doing, she opens up new ways of thinking about the complexities of environmental knowl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAn Ecology of Knowledges\u003c\/i\u003e is replete with intriguing ethnographic material located at the crossroads of histories of violence and practices of conservation. Its themes and depictions of the problematic relation between state, ecology, globalization, and violence—along with its siting in a globally recognized ecological zone—are all extremely compelling features that will appeal to scholars and students, NGO workers, conservation officials, and even governmental organizations.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *\u003cbr\u003e“This exceptionally well-written book details the complex interactions between people, nonhuman animals, organizations, and interests as they converge in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere. Micha Rahder's strongly grounded and fine-grained research reveals how conservation organizations work and how knowledge and uncertainty about nature, population, wildness, and frontiers operate. Although it charts a conservation failure, \u003ci\u003eAn Ecology of Knowledges\u003c\/i\u003e is really about success: how people learn from process, create conservation consciousness and enact deep care.” -- Diane M. Nelson, author of * Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide *\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful complement to more standard critical analyses of conservation and development that focus on impacts on local people…. The book is perhaps most appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, and Latin American Studies. It is also an essential read for scholars of knowledge, conservation, and development working around the world.\" -- Maron Greenleaf * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eAn Ecology of Knowledges\u003c\/i\u003e, Micha Rahder contributes a thought-provoking, interdisciplinary volume on epistemological inconsistencies that define conservation practice in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR).\" -- Daillen Culver * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Ecology of Knowledges\u003c\/i\u003e is an important addition to interdisciplinary conservation scholarship. Rahder expertly illustrates the influences that the shifting winds of international development, electoral politics, and NGO funding have on conservation knowledge and action. As well, the work gives insight into the ways that technologies, from GIS to community surveys, interact with individuals, institutions, and histories to produce expert knowledge(s). Lastly, and most importantly, the book moves us away from the simplistic, monolithic depictions of conservation with its unique view into conservationists’ minds, actions, and outcomes.\" -- David M. Hoffman * Environment and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements  xii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. What on Earth Is a Nooscape?  1\u003cbr\u003e Learning How to See  10\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve  13\u003cbr\u003e Silences of Memory  32\u003cbr\u003e I. Double Visions: Technoscience and Paranoia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Eye of the Storm  37\u003cbr\u003e Corrupted Data  57\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mapping Gobernabilidad  59\u003cbr\u003e Gender and Violence  92\u003cbr\u003e 4. But Is It a Basin?  94\u003cbr\u003e Peteneros and Other Endemic Species  116\u003cbr\u003e II. Patchiness and Fragmentation\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Reserve Full of Rooftops  121\u003cbr\u003e Parks, Poverty, People  152\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fire at the Edge of the Forest  155\u003cbr\u003e Death of a Dog  185\u003cbr\u003e III. Composing and Composting Knowledges\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Known Place  189\u003cbr\u003e Certainty Emerges  216\u003cbr\u003e Apocalypse Soon!  245\u003cbr\u003e 9. Nine \/ Redd+Queen Futures  247\u003cbr\u003e Modest Interventions  265\u003cbr\u003e Afterword  268\u003cbr\u003e Notes  273\u003cbr\u003e References  287\u003cbr\u003e Index  303","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040537739607,"sku":"9781478006107","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006107.jpg?v=1750947050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-ecology-of-knowledges-9781478006107","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}