Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of
innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of
the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology))
Decolonizing Development investigates the ways
colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship
between colonialism and development as forms of power.
* Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist
theory and applied to original research data
* Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations
* An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of
postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya
Tabela de Conteúdo
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.
Sobre o autor
Joel Wainwright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University.
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