Description
Book SynopsisDevelopment studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests contributes to such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes the relationship between culture and political economy.
Trade Review“In her account of Ciénaga and its people, Light Carruyo centers the voices, experiences, and political interests of Ciénagüeros as they confront the local state, national elites, foreign aid workers, and foreign scholars who lay claim to their community’s resources. She offers a rich portrayal of a peasant community in the Dominican Republic actively engaging the changing global economy, the contradictory development policies promoted among them by a range of actors, and competing notions of what constitutes ‘the good life.’ The result is a highly readable text that contributes significantly to multiple sociology sub-fields, including development, gender, and cultural studies.”
—Ginetta E.B. Candelario,Smith College
“The book is concise yet rich in ethnographic and theoretical insights. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests is a much needed contribution to the fields of development studies, rural sociology, tourism studies, Caribbean, Latin American, Women’s and Gender Studies. It will be classic for years to come.”
—Amalia L. Cabezas International Feminist Journal of Politics
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Development and the Construction of the Productive Peasant
2. Encounters: Tourism, Conservation, and Gendered Tourist Patronage in La Ciénaga
3. Disjunctures: Why “Nothing Ever Comes to La Ciénaga”
4. Collisions: Meaning, Mobility, and the Serious Woman
Epilogue
Appendix
References
Index
