Producing knowledge, protecting forests
Subtitle: rural encounters with gender, ecotourism, and international aid in the Dominican Republic
By: Light Carruyo.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780271033259
Subjects: Human ecology -- Dominican Republic; Conservation of natural resources -- Dominican Republic; Globalization; Dominican Republic -- Rural conditions
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-123) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Development and the construction of the productive peasant; title: Encounters: tourism, conservation, and gendered tourist patronage in la Cienaga; title: Disjunctures: why "nothing ever comes to la Cienaga"; title: Collisions: meaning, mobility, and the serious woman; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix; title: References; title: Index.