Taming the jungle, saving the Maya Forest: Sedimented counterinsurgency practices in contemporary Guatemalan conservation

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 479-502

  Ybarra, Megan ^a  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conservation; counterinsurgency; Guatemala; political ecology; protected areas; violence

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA; VIOLENCE;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MAYA FOREST;

MELISSA;

EID: 84860148371     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2012.666974     Document Type: Article

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