Description: Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic by Light Carruyo Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. But women's and men's daily practices and the meaning they give to those practices show the ways in which they are not simply victims of development, but also active participants, creating, challenging, and negotiating the capitalist world-system on the ground. This book contributes toward building such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes the relationship between culture and political economy. Many studies of the "local" treat it as a way of authorizing development projects or policies, dismiss it as colonized knowledge, or else romanticize it as "traditional" knowledge in contrast with the elite scientific knowledge provided by experts from the developed nations. These approaches perpetuate modernist dualisms, which Carruyo wishes to "unsettle" by interpreting local knowledge instead as a dynamic process, configured and reconfigured at the intersections of structural forces and lived practices. Her ethnographic case study of the Dominican rural community of La Cienaga de Manabao, which forms the core of this book, provides a unique site enabling her to explore how competing interests in agricultural production, tourism, and conservation both shape and collide with local practices and knowledge. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. But womens and mens daily practices and the meaning they give to those practices show the ways in which they are not simply victims of development, but also active participants, creating, challenging, and negotiating the capitalist world-system on the ground. This book contributes toward building such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes the relationship between culture and political economy.Many studies of the "local" treat it as a way of authorizing development projects or policies, dismiss it as colonized knowledge, or else romanticize it as "traditional" knowledge in contrast with the elite scientific knowledge provided by experts from the developed nations. These approaches perpetuate modernist dualisms, which Carruyo wishes to "unsettle" by interpreting local knowledge instead as a dynamic process, configured and reconfigured at the intersections of structural forces and lived practices.Her ethnographic case study of the Dominican rural community of La Cienaga de Manabao, which forms the core of this book, provides a unique site enabling her to explore how competing interests in agricultural production, tourism, and conservation both shape and collide with local practices and knowledge. Author Biography Light Carruyo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at Vassar College. Table of Contents ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.Development and the Construction of the Productive Peasant2.Encounters: Tourism, Conservation, and Gendered Tourist Patronage in La Cienaga3.Disjunctures: Why "Nothing Ever Comes to La Cienaga"4.Collisions: Meaning, Mobility, and the Serious WomanEpilogueAppendixReferencesIndex Review "The book is concise yet rich in ethnographic and theoretical insights. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests is a much needed contribution to the fields of development studies, rural sociology, tourism studies, Caribbean, Latin American, Womens and Gender Studies. It will be classic for years to come."-Amalia L. Cabezas, International Feminist Journal of Politics "In her account of Cienaga and its people, Light Carruyo centers the voices, experiences, and political interests of Cienagueros as they confront the local state, national elites, foreign aid workers, and foreign scholars who lay claim to their communitys resources. She offers a rich portrayal of a peasant community in the Dominican Republic actively engaging the changing global economy, the contradictory development policies promoted among them by a range of actors, and competing notions of what constitutes `the good life. The result is a highly readable text that contributes significantly to multiple sociology sub-fields, including development, gender, and cultural studies."-Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Smith College Long Description Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests contributes to such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes the relationship between culture and political economy. Womens and mens daily practices, and the meaning they give those practices, show the ways in which they are not simply victims of development but active participants creating, challenging, and negotiating the capitalist world-system on the ground. Rather than viewing local knowledge as something to be uncovered or recovered in the service of development, Light Carruyo approaches it as a dynamic process configured and reconfigured at the intersections of structural forces and lived practices. In her ethnographic case study of La Ci Review Text "The book is concise yet rich in ethnographic and theoretical insights. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests is a much needed contribution to the fields of development studies, rural sociology, tourism studies, Caribbean, Latin American, Womens and Gender Studies. It will be classic for years to come." --Amalia L. Cabezas, International Feminist Journal of Politics Review Quote "This rich portrayal of a peasant community in the Dominican Republic actively engaging the changing global economy is a highly readable text that contributes significantly to multiple sociology subfields, including development, gender, and cultural studies." -- Ginetta E. B. Candelario Details ISBN0271033258 Author Light Carruyo Pages 128 Language English ISBN-10 0271033258 ISBN-13 9780271033259 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 304.209 Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-04-30 Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press Subtitle Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States Short Title PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE PROTECTING Publisher Penn State University Press DOI 10.1604/9780271033259 Audience Professional and Scholarly NZ Release Date 2008-04-04 US Release Date 2008-04-04 UK Release Date 2008-04-04 AU Release Date 2008-04-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161642967;
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