04018nam 22006735 450 991052006590332120230810174133.09783030893200(electronic bk.)978303089319410.1007/978-3-030-89320-0(MiAaPQ)EBC6838627(Au-PeEL)EBL6838627(CKB)20275208400041(OCoLC)1294147666(DE-He213)978-3-030-89320-0(EXLCZ)992027520840004120211211d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier(Mis)trusting Development Social Struggles and Forest Conservation in Guatemala /by Margit Ystanes1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (202 pages)Print version: Ystanes, Margit (Mis)trusting Development Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030893194 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1. Introduction: (Mis)trusting Development -- Chapter 2. Trusting Self and Others -- Chapter 3. The Forestry Process -- Chapter 4. Narratives of Tourism and Conservation -- Chapter 5. Building Cooperation -- Chapter 6. (Mis)trusting the Process.-Chapter 7.Conclusions: Trusting and Sustainable Development.This book explores the role of trust in social struggles related to tropical forest preservation in El Petén, 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. Margit Ystanes is Associate Professor at Volda University College, Norway. The present work represents a further development and confluence of two lines of research represented by Ystanes's two co-edited volumes, Trusting and Its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (with Vigdis Broch-Due, 2016) and The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change (with Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, 2018).Human ecologyPolitical anthropologyEconomic anthropologyEconomic developmentEthnologyLatin AmericaCultureEnvironmental AnthropologyPolitical and Economic AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesLatin American CultureHuman ecology.Political anthropology.Economic anthropology.Economic development.EthnologyCulture.Environmental Anthropology.Political and Economic Anthropology.Development Studies.Latin American Culture.338.9333.7516097281Ystanes Margit1075420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910520065903321Mis)trusting Development2584627UNINA