ENVIRONMENT AND CITIZENSHIP IN LATIN AMERICA
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Edited by Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman
Published in Association with the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA),
Amsterdam
266 pages, 1 table, 2 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-747-9 Hb $70.00/£43.00 Published July 2012
eISBN 978-0-85745-748-6
Hb $70.00
“This book is a major contribution to our understanding of
environmental politics in Latin America. The chapters present a wealth of
original research that shows that environmental concerns are part of the
daily life of indigenous populations and other grassroots groups. The
theoretical frame of environmental citizenship provides a compelling way
for thinking about how their environmental demands are closely linked to
their national identity, political participation, land and
resources.” · Kathryn Hochstetler, University of Waterloo
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only
recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of
inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of
new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring
these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different
social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a
collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship,
while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical
and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying
environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto
leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to
spark further research.
Alex Latta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the Balsillie
School of International Affairs.
Hannah Wittman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Institute for Resources,
Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia
Series: Volume 101, CEDLA Latin America Studies
Subject: Environmental Studies, Politics & Economics, Anthropology
Area: Latin America
LC: JA75.8.E57 2012
BISAC: POL003000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Civics & Citizenship; NAT011000 NATURE/Environmental Conservation &
Protection; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/CulturalBIC: JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography;
RNK Conservation of the environment
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Citizens, Society and Nature: Sites of Inquiry, Points of Departure
Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman
Section One: Assembling Nature’s Citizens
Chapter 2. Environmental Citizenship and Climate Security: Contextualizing Violence and Citizenship in Amazonian Peru
Andrew Baldwin and Judy Meltzer
Chapter 3. Multi-Scale Environmental Citizenship: Traditional Populations and Protected Areas in Brazil
Fábio de Castro
Chapter 4. "Sin Maíz No Hay País”: Citizenship and Environment in Mexico's Food Sovereignty Movement
Analiese Richard
Chapter 5. Social Participation and the Politics of Climate in Northeast Brazil
Renzo Taddei
Section Two: Environmental Marginality and the Struggle for Justice
Chapter 6. Negotiating Citizenship in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Juanita Sundberg
Chapter 7. Peru’s Amazonian Imaginary: Marginality, Territory and National Integration
María Teresa Grillo and Tucker Sharon
Chapter 8. Citizenship regimes and post-neoliberal environments in Bolivia
Jason Tockman
Chapter 9. Chile is Timber Country: Citizenship, Justice and Scale in the Chilean Native Forest Market Campaign
Adam Henne and Teena Gabrielson
Section Three: Citizens, Environmental Governance and the State
Chapter 10. Access Denied: Urban Highways, Deliberate Improvisation and Political Impasse in Santiago, Chile
Enrique R. Silva
Chapter 11. Environmental Collective Action, Justice and Institutional Change in Argentina
María Gabriela Merlinsky and Alex Latta
Chapter 12. Environmentalism as an Arena for Political Participation in Northern Argentina
Brian Ferrero
Chapter 13. Legislating “Rights for Nature” in Ecuador: The Mediated Social Construction of Human/Nature Dualisms
Juliet Pinto
List of Acronyms
List of Contributors
Index
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