The Patagonian Sublime

The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

Marcos Mendoza (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9675-4 (ISBN)

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Provides a vivid and accessible investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research, Marcos Mendoza examines the social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy.

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.

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

Contents

List of Acronyms

List of Spanish Terms

List of Images

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Sphere of Tourism Consumption

1          Alpine-Style Mountaineering: Resolve and Death in the Andes

2          Adventure Trekking: Pursuing the Alpine Sublime

Part Two: The Sphere of Service Production

3          Comerciante Entrepreneurship: Investment Hazard and Ethical Laboring

4          Golondrina Laboring: Informality and Play

            Part Three: The Sphere of the Conservation State

5          Community-Based Conservation: Land Managers and State-Civil Society Collaborations

6          Conservation Policing: Education and Environmental Impacts

            Part Four: The Politics of the Green Economy

7          Defending Popular Sustainability in la Comuna

8          Kirchnerismo and the Politics of the Green Economy

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	14 b&w
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Reiseführer ► Südamerika ► Argentien
	Reiseführer ► Südamerika ► Chile
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-9675-0 / 0813596750
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9675-4 / 9780813596754
Zustand	Neuware