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On the Honduran North Coast, the Afro-indigenous Garifuna struggle to maintain access to and control of their ancestral lands. Their concerns are due in part to the Honduran state's long-standing goal of modernizing the North Coast and providing an attractive site for foreign investment in land and tourism. The state's commitment to improving the country's development profile by opening coastal land ownership to foreigners often overlooks international and constitutional recognition of communal forms of land tenure. Ethnographic participant observation in the Garifuna community of Tornabé, a fishing and farming village in the Tela Bay region, supplemented by semistructured interviews, historical data collection, discourse analysis, and research on agrarian and environmental policy, suggests that Garifuna displacement is a product of the state's development imaginaries, which racialize the Garifuna as backward and consider their blackness redeemable only by their labor. En la costa norte de Honduras, los garífunas afro-indígenas luchan por mantener el acceso a y control de sus tierras ancestrales. Sus preocupaciones se deben en parte a la meta de largo plazo del estado hondureño por modernizar la costa norte y hacerla atractiva a la inversión extranjera en tierras y turismo. El compromiso del estado por mejorar el perfil de desarrollo del país accediendo a que exista propiedad extranjera en la región costeña a menudo ignora el reconocimiento constitucional e internacional de formas comunales de tenencia de la tierra. Observación etnográfica participante en la comunidad garífuna de Tornabé, una aldea de pescadores y agricultores en la región de Bahía de Tela, complementada con entrevistas semi-estructuradas, recopilación de datos históricos, análisis del discurso e investigación sobre política agraria y ambiental, sugiere que el desplazamiento forzado garífuna es un producto de imaginarios de desarrollo estatales que los racializan como retrógradas y consideran que su negrura sólo es redimible a través de su trabajo.

"In the context of sustainable development recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On one side, land justice advocates dictate that people's rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand, biodiversity protection and conservation advocates, supported by global environmental organizations and participating states, remain committed to conservation strategies, justified as superior to the rights of local people on behalf of a "global" mandate for biodiversity and climate change mitigation. Struggles in the Spaces between Land Rights and Biodiversity Conservation traces the overlapping spaces between these two camps as a way to unpack what kinds of ideologies inform this tension. Through a number of case studies and shorter pieces of theoretical reflection taken from around the world, this edited volume explores the particular ideologies, narratives and practices in the spaces between land and territorial rights and biodiversity conservation that create natural resource struggles, negotiations and acceptance. In illustrating the spaces between competing agendas of land governance and conservation, the book offers a counter-narrative that affirms that the successful and just future of biodiversity conservation is contingent upon land tenure security for local people. The original research gathered together in this volume will be of considerable interest to researchers of development studies, political ecology, land rights, and conservation."--Provided by publisher.

This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.

Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters.

The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies and natural resource governance.

"This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing. Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the global South and global North and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly in the handbook. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies, and natural resource governance"--

Author biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Engaging feminist spaces : introduction and overview / Ann M. Oberhauser, Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Sharlene Mollett -- The body, performance, and space / Jennifer L. Fluri -- Spaces of culture and identity production : home, consumption, and the media / Risa Whitson -- Gendering the right to the city / Risa Whitson -- Gendered work and economic livelihoods / Ann M. Oberhauser -- Feminist political geography and geopolitics / Jennifer L. Fluri -- Environmental struggles are feminist struggles : feminist political ecology as development critique / Sharlene Mollett -- Feminist spaces : overview and reflections / Sharlene Mollett, Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Ann Oberhauser -- Bibliography -- Index.