"Blind passes" and the production of green security through violence on the Guatemalan border

Geoforum

Volumn 69, Issue , 2016, Pages 194-206

  Ybarra, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderlands; Conservation; Drug war; Guatemala; Maya Forest; Political ecology; Security

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; COLD WAR; CONSERVATION; DRUG; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; PROTECTED AREA; REGIONAL SECURITY;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MAYA FOREST;

EID: 84955074113     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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