Identities in the making: conservation, gender and race in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/0966369042000188549
ISSN1360-0524
Autores Tópico(s)Geographies of human-animal interactions
ResumoThis article examines how the daily discourses, practices, and performances of conservation projects are instrumental in mapping ways of life that are gendered and racialized. With the goal of bringing a feminist approach to the study of conservation, I present an ethnographic account of identities‐in‐the‐making in three conservation encounters in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in northern Guatemala. In the first two encounters, I examine the ways in which gender and race are constituted in the relations between the Women's Group for the Rescue of Itza' Medicinal Plants and a United States‐based international environmental non‐governmental organization. The third encounter highlights the relations between the Women's Group and myself, the researcher, to analyze how social‐science, through methods such as ethnography, is also implicated in (re)configuring social identities.
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