Green Encounters
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Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

About this book

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable development, and tourism. Yet most of that analysis has uncritically evaluated the Monte Verde phenomenon, using celebratory language and barely scratching the surface of the many-faceted socio-cultural transformations provoked by and accompanying environmentalism. Because of its stature, Monte Verde represents an ideal case study to examine the socio-cultural and political complexities and dilemmas of practicing environmentalism in rural Costa Rica. Based on many years of close observation, this book offers rich and original material on the ongoing struggles between environmental activists and of collective and oppositional politics to Monte Verde's new "culture of nature."

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Table of contents

  1. Green Encounters
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Preface and Acknowledgements
  6. 1. Introduction: Encounters in a Tropical Cloud Forest
  7. Part One: Monte Verde’s Visibility
  8. 2. Monte Verde’s Agricultural Environment
  9. 3. Uneven Terrain: The Practice and Politics of “Saving” Monte Verde
  10. Part Two: Landscapes and Lives: Environmentalism’s “Social Work”
  11. 4. Testing the Boundaries of Environmentalism in a Participatory Age
  12. 5. Dismembering San Gerardo: A Cautionary Tale of “Sustainable Development”
  13. 6. Contesting “Community” in a Community Conservation Project: The Fight for the Reserva Santa Elena
  14. Part Three: Monte Verde and the Adolescence of Ecotourism
  15. 7. Quetzals and Other(ing) Spectacles of Tropical Nature
  16. 8. Conclusion: Environmentalism at a Crossroads
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index