Land Grab - Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras

This is a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in native communities on the north coast of Honduras. It also answers the question: can "freedom" be achieved under the structures of neoliberalism?

About the author

Keri Vacanti Brondo is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis. She has spent the last decade researching and writing about Garifuna land rights, women's activism, and conservation policies in Honduras.

Summary

Provides a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in Garifuna communities on the north coast of Honduras, before and after the 2009 coup d'etat.

Product details

• Authors: Keri Vacanti Brondo
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780816535569
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3556-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 344 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology