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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Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Preface
Acknowledgements
Q’eqchi’ Language and Orthography
Notes on Measurements
Maps
Introduction: Commons Past
1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q’eqchi’ History
2. Maya Gringos: Q’eqchi’ Lowland Migration and Territorial Expansion
3. Commons, Customs, and Carrying Capacities: The Property and Population Traps of the Peten Frontier
4. Speculating: The World Bank’s Market-Assisted Land Reform
5. From Colonial to Corporate Capitalism: Expanding Cattle Frontiers
6. The Neoliberal Auction: The PPP and the DR-CAFTA
Conclusion: Common Features
Glossary
Acronyms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
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.
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