Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya

Copyright © 2008 Joel Wainwright

Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya

Author(s): Joel Wainwright

Published Online: 27 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405157056

Online ISBN: 9780470712955

DOI: 10.1002/9780470712955

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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

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Introduction: Capitalism Qua Development (pages 1–38)

  3. Part I: Colonizing the Maya

    1. Chapter 1

      Unsettling the Colonial Geographies of Southern Belize (pages 41–68)

    2. Chapter 2

      The Matter of the Maya Farm System (pages 69–98)

    3. Chapter 3

      An Archaeology of Mayanism (pages 99–149)

  4. Part II: Aporias of Development

    1. Chapter 4

      From Colonial to Development Knowledge: Charles Wright and the Battles over the Columbia River Forest (pages 153–199)

    2. Chapter 5

      Settling: Fieldwork in the Ruins of Development (pages 200–240)

    3. Chapter 6

      Finishing the Critique of Cultural Ecology: Reading the Maya Atlas (pages 241–281)

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      Conclusion (pages 282–286)

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      Bibliography (pages 287–308)

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      Index (pages 309–312)

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