Forests of Refuge

Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39607-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change. Yolanda Ariadne Collins interrogates the most ambitious global plan to incentivize people away from deforesting activities: the United Nations–endorsed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative. Forests of Refuge explores REDD+ in Guyana and neighboring Suriname, two highly forested countries in the Amazonian Guiana Shield with low deforestation rates. Yet REDD+ implementation there has been fraught with challenges. Adopting a multisited ethnographic approach, Forests of Refuge takes readers into the halls of policymaking, into conservation development organizations, and into forest-dependent communities most affected by environmental policies and exploitative colonial histories. This book situates these challenges in the inattentiveness of global environmental policies to roughly five hundred years of colonial histories that positioned the forests as places of refuge and resistance. It advocates that the fruits of these oppressive histories be reckoned with through processes of decolonization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Yolanda Ariadne

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Wälder
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Between a Mine and a Hard Place

2 Behead the Sovereign

3 Decenter Markets

4 Undiscipline the Subjects

5 Counter Discipline with Truths

Concluding Remarks

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yolanda Ariadne Collins is Lecturer in the School of International Relations at University of St Andrews. She studies the intersection between climate change governance, environmental policy, and international development. Her work examines processes of racialization and histories of colonialism and the ways in which they challenge the successful enactment of forest governance policies in the Global South.