The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-9675-4
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid, accessible, and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy.

Mendoza explores the fraught intersection of the green economy with the New Left politics of the Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner governments. Mendoza documents the strategies of capitalist development, national representation, and political rule embedded in the “green productivist” agenda pursued by Kirchner and Fernández. Mendoza shows how Andean Patagonian communities have responded to the challenges of community-based conservation, the fashioning of wilderness zones, and the drive to create place-based monopolies that allow ecotourism destinations to compete in the global consumer economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendoza, Marcos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Gebirge
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Acronyms
- List of Spanish Terms
- List of Images
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: The Sphere of Tourism Consumption
- 1Alpine-Style Mountaineering: Resolve and Death in the Andes
- 2Adventure Trekking: Pursuing the Alpine Sublime
- Part Two: The Sphere of Service Production
- 3Comerciante Entrepreneurship: Investment Hazard and Ethical Laboring
- 4Golondrina Laboring: Informality and Play
- Part Three: The Sphere of the Conservation State
- 5Community-Based Conservation: Land Managers and State-Civil Society Collaborations
- 6Conservation Policing: Education and Environmental Impacts
- Part Four: The Politics of the Green Economy
- 7Defending Popular Sustainability in la Comuna
- 8Kirchnerismo and the Politics of the Green Economy
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Marcos Mendoza is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.