Wainwright Decolonizing Development

Colonial Power and the Maya
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9979-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition ofinnovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors ofthe CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology))
Decolonizing Development investigates the wayscolonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationshipbetween colonialism and development as forms of power.
* Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxisttheory and applied to original research data
* Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations
* An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars ofpostcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wainwright, Joel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Introduction.
Part I: Colonizing the Maya.
1. The territorialization of southern Belize.
2. The matter of the Maya farm system.
3. An archaeology of Mayanism.
Part II: Aporias of development.
4. From colonial to development knowledge.
5. Settling: fieldwork in the ruins of development.
6. Finishing the critique of cultural ecology.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Wainwright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University.