Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.
Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Part I: Embodied Foreign Debt in the National System of Conservation Areas 1 - Political Economy: Building Costa Rica's Neo-liberal State 2 - Political Ecology: Debt-for-Nature and Its Experts Part II: Embodied Debt-for-Nature: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature 3 - The Land Plan in Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area: New Natures and New Workers in Fortuna, Z-Trece, Abanico, and Miramar 4 - Genetics as a Site of Biotechnology or Biopiracy: Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples' and Peasants' Knowledge 5 - Forests as Carbon Sinks: Dispossession of Peasant Access to the Forest 6 - Scenery as Eco-tourism: Dispossession of Peasant Agricultural Land and the Rise of Prostitution 7 - Medicinal Plants in Micro-enterprises: The Dispossession of Rural Women's Labour and Knowledge 8 - Mountains as Open-Pit Mining Sites: Dispossession of Peasants' Water and Livelihood 9 - The Need for Alternative Relations
