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This book explores the role of trust in social struggles related to
tropical forest preservation in El Peten, Guatemala. The author
combines ethnographic exploration of how trust is formed in the
local context with insights about postcolonial inequalities, which
structure discourses on development and climate change in ways that
exclude local actors. Empirically, the book follows the complicated
engagements of local concession-holding forest communities with
outside actors aiming to develop archaeology-based tourism in
Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. A central argument presented is
that processes initiated for societal improvement need to be based
on trusting relationships in order to be successful. This requires
a context sensitive approach that takes into consideration how
trust is formed and undermined in specific lifeworlds, as well as
postcolonial inequalities. Theoretically, the book expands existing
conceptualisations of trust and emphasises the potential for
ethnographic research to further our understanding of this elusive
phenomenon. "How do trust and mistrust permeate the fluid relations
among communities living off the forests of northern Guatemala,
outside stakeholders, and a global discourse of cultural heritage
and climate change? This remarkable book by a pioneer of the
anthropology of trust dissects a questionable development plan that
threatens the rights and livelihood of a local population
marginalized in a decision-making process aimed at protecting
ancient archaeological sites, promoting tourism, and preserving the
rain forest." - Antonius C. G. M. Robben, author of Argentina
Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability and Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands "El
Mirador is an extraordinary Mayan archaeological site in the
jungles of northern Guatemala, accessible only by foot or
helicopter. Poor mestizos, for whom the forest is home, have become
expert tour guides and forest conservationists. Outsiders who view
the ruins and forest as a resource primed for extraction have
extravagant plans to "develop" the area. Ystanes offers a richly
contextualized and theorized exploration of the struggles over
caring for and living in and off this exceptional and fragile
place, by focusing on the role of trust in the complex negotiations
over its future and in identities more broadly. While showing how
structural inequalities breed mistrust at every scale, this is a
beautiful and nuanced take on existential questions of living in
worlds shaped by violence and competition with historical
knowledge, ecosystem survival, and livelihoods at stake." - Diane
Nelson, Bass Chair and Eads Family Professor of Cultural
Anthropology, Duke University, USA
Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday
lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and
theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally
situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has
often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations,
the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about
dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust
that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited
volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social
lives and social realities in Latin America during the past
decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into
the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to
what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium
managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of
inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of
economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the
fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been
challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing
a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better
understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American
continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is
continuously contested. The book directs itself to students,
scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic
anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty
and socio-economic inequalities.
Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday
lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and
theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally
situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has
often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations,
the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about
dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust
that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.
This book explores the role of trust in social struggles related to
tropical forest preservation in El Peten, Guatemala. The author
combines ethnographic exploration of how trust is formed in the
local context with insights about postcolonial inequalities, which
structure discourses on development and climate change in ways that
exclude local actors. Empirically, the book follows the complicated
engagements of local concession-holding forest communities with
outside actors aiming to develop archaeology-based tourism in
Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. A central argument presented is
that processes initiated for societal improvement need to be based
on trusting relationships in order to be successful. This requires
a context sensitive approach that takes into consideration how
trust is formed and undermined in specific lifeworlds, as well as
postcolonial inequalities. Theoretically, the book expands existing
conceptualisations of trust and emphasises the potential for
ethnographic research to further our understanding of this elusive
phenomenon. "How do trust and mistrust permeate the fluid relations
among communities living off the forests of northern Guatemala,
outside stakeholders, and a global discourse of cultural heritage
and climate change? This remarkable book by a pioneer of the
anthropology of trust dissects a questionable development plan that
threatens the rights and livelihood of a local population
marginalized in a decision-making process aimed at protecting
ancient archaeological sites, promoting tourism, and preserving the
rain forest." - Antonius C. G. M. Robben, author of Argentina
Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability and Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands "El
Mirador is an extraordinary Mayan archaeological site in the
jungles of northern Guatemala, accessible only by foot or
helicopter. Poor mestizos, for whom the forest is home, have become
expert tour guides and forest conservationists. Outsiders who view
the ruins and forest as a resource primed for extraction have
extravagant plans to "develop" the area. Ystanes offers a richly
contextualized and theorized exploration of the struggles over
caring for and living in and off this exceptional and fragile
place, by focusing on the role of trust in the complex negotiations
over its future and in identities more broadly. While showing how
structural inequalities breed mistrust at every scale, this is a
beautiful and nuanced take on existential questions of living in
worlds shaped by violence and competition with historical
knowledge, ecosystem survival, and livelihoods at stake." - Diane
Nelson, Bass Chair and Eads Family Professor of Cultural
Anthropology, Duke University, USA
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