Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect
large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love,
and labor. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests contributes to
such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes
the relationship between culture and political economy. Women's and
men's daily practices, and the meaning they give those practices,
show the ways in which they are not simply victims of development
but active participants creating, challenging, and negotiating the
capitalist world-system on the ground.
Rather than viewing local knowledge as something to be uncovered
or recovered in the service of development, Light Carruyo
approaches it as a dynamic process configured and reconfigured at
the intersections of structural forces and lived practices. In her
ethnographic case study of La Cienaga--a rural community on the
edge of an important ecological preserve and national park in the
Dominican Republic--Carruyo argues that Dominican economic
development has rested its legitimacy on rescuing peasants from
their own subsistence practices so that they may serve the nation
as "productive citizens," a category that is both racialized and
gendered. How have women and men in this community come to know
what they know about development and well-being? And how, based on
this knowledge, do they engage with development projects and work
toward well-being? Carruyo illustrates how competing interests in
agricultural production, tourism, and conservation shape, collide
with, and are remade by local practices and logics.
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