TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gahman,Levi
TI  - Defending community, territory, and indigenous environmental relations
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in indigenous environmental research
SN  - 9781009454599 (ebook)
AV  - F1435.3.P7 G34 2025
U1  - 972.8201 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Belize
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2025); Open Access
N2  - 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 Qʼeqchiʼ 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009454599
ER  -