Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests - Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic

About the author

Light Carruyo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at Vassar College.

Summary

Development 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.

Product details

• Authors: Light (Vassar College) Carruyo, Carruyo Light
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9780271033266
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03326-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 213 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Comparative Politics, Gender studies, gender groups, Development Studies, Rural communities / rural life