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9781405157056

Decolonizing Development Colonial Power and the Maya

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  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-02-11
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Author Biography

Joel Wainwright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. viii
Acknowledgmentsp. x
List of Abbreviationsp. xii
Introduction: Capitalism qua Developmentp. 1
Colonizing the Mayap. 39
Unsettling the Colonial Geographies of Southern Belizep. 41
The Matter of the Maya Farm Systemp. 69
An Archaeology of Mayanismp. 99
Aporias of Developmentp. 151
From Colonial to Development Knowledge: Charles Wright and the Battles over the Columbia River Forestp. 153
Settling: Fieldwork in the Ruins of Developmentp. 200
Finishing the Critique of Cultural Ecology: Reading the Maya Atlasp. 241
Conclusionp. 282
Bibliographyp. 287
Indexp. 309
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