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Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations

By Levi Gahman

Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations

By Levi Gahman

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This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. In addition to foregrounding environmental relations, the text provides deeper understandings of Q¿eqchi¿ and Mopan Maya people's dynamic conceptions and collective defence of community and territory. To do so, the authors centre the voices, worldviews, and experiences of Maya leaders, youth, and organisers who are engaged in frontline resistance and mobilisations against institutionalised racism and contemporary forms of dispossession. Broadly, the content offers an example of how Indigenous communities are reckoning with the legacies of empire whilst confronting the structural violence and threats to land and life posed by the driving forces of capital accumulation, neoliberal development, and coloniality of the state. Ultimately, this Element illustrates the realities, repercussions, and transformative potential of grassroots movement-building 'from below.' This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
104
Release Date:
2025-09-11
Publication Date:
2025-08-21
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009454579
ISBN13:
9781009454575
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
164 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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