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Grandia, Liza

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295991658 ISBN 13: 9780295991658

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2012

Synopsis

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore the recurring enclosures of Guatemala's second largest indigenous group, who number a million strong. Having lost most of their highland territory to foreign coffee planters at the end of the 19th century, Q'eqchi' people began migrating into the lowland forests of northern Guatemala and southern Belize. Then, pushed deeper into the frontier by cattle ranchers, lowland Q'eqchi' found themselves in conflict with biodiversity conservationists who established protected areas across this region during the 1990s.

The lowland, maize-growing Q'eqchi' of the 21st century face even more problems as they are swept into global markets through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the Puebla to Panama Plan (PPP). The waves of dispossession imposed upon them, driven by encroaching coffee plantations, cattle ranches, and protected areas, have unsettled these agrarian people. Enclosed describes how they have faced and survived their challenges and, in doing so, helps to explain what is happening in other contemporary enclosures of public "common" space.

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About this title

About the Authors

Liza Grandia is associate professor of Native American studies at University of California, Davis. She is the author of Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders (University of Washington Press, 2012).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295991658
• ISBN 13: 9780295991658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304