Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects and Struggles

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

Environment and Citizenship in Latin America

Natures, Subjects and Struggles

Edited by: Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman

Volume 101 in the series CEDLA Latin America Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857457486

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About this book

Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.

Author / Editor information

Alex Latta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Hannah Wittman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia

Alex Latta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Reviews

“This book is a major contribution to our understanding of environmental politics in Latin America. The chapters present a wealth of original research that shows that environmental concerns are part of the daily life of indigenous populations and other grassroots groups. The theoretical frame of environmental citizenship provides a compelling way for thinking about how their environmental demands are closely linked to their national identity, political participation, land and resources.” · Kathryn Hochstetler, University of Waterloo

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Chapter 1. Citizens, Society and Nature: Sites of Inquiry, Points of Departure Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Assembling Nature’s Citizens
Chapter 2. Environmental Citizenship and Climate Security: Contextualizing Violence and Citizenship in Amazonian Peru Andrew Baldwin and Judy Meltzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 3. Multi-Scale Environmental Citizenship: Traditional Populations and Protected Areas in Brazil Fábio de Castro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 4. ‘Sin Maíz No Hay País’: Citizenship and Environment in Mexico’s Food Sovereignty Movement Analiese Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 5. Social Participation and the Politics of Climate in Northeast Brazil Renzo Taddei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Environmental Marginality and the Struggle for Justice
Chapter 6. Negotiating Citizenship in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala Juanita Sundberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 7. Peru’s Amazonian Imaginary: Marginality, Territory and National Integration María Teresa Grillo and Tucker Sharon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter 8. Citizenship Regimes and Post-Neoliberal Environments in Bolivia Jason Tockman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 9. Chile is Timber Country: Citizenship, Justice and Scale in the Chilean Native Forest Market Campaign Adam Henne and Teena Gabrielson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Citizens, Environmental Governance and the State
Chapter 10. Access Denied: Urban Highways, Deliberate Improvisation and Political Impasse in Santiago, Chile Enrique R. Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 11. Environmental Collective Action, Justice and Institutional Change in Argentina María Gabriela Merlinsky and Alex Latta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Chapter 12. Environmentalism as an Arena for Political Participation in Northern Argentina Brián Ferrero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 13. Legislating ‘Rights for Nature’ in Ecuador: The Mediated Social Construction of Human/Nature Dualisms Juliet Pinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 262
Keywords: Environmental Studies (General); Anthropology (General)

eBook

Published: July 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857457486