Conservation by racialized dispossession: The making of an eco-destination on Honduras’s North Coast

Loperena, Christopher

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.07.004

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“…The appropriation of CSR to obtain SLO by the LTWP in the context of a contestation of its activities can be understood as examples of a "green washing" dispossession. However, as with Loperena's account of similar practices in conservation [82], CSR does not stop the exploitative processes of appropriation by the state and corporate investors set in motion by development visions of the state focused on appropriating natural resources premised on low-cost green energy development. Apart from the fact that CSR activities risk presenting certain business values as non-negotiable universal values and hence overriding the role of business in poverty reduction in the developing world [83], CSR activities, in a context where the state has failed to provide the necessary social amenities, as Ferguson argues, may reinforce and expand "the exercise of bureaucratic state power, which takes poverty as its entry point" in launching an intervention that has adverse effects on local communities [4].…”

Section: (C) Csr-greenwashing Dispossessionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Gargule

2019

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State-led development visions and the accompanying large-scale investments at the geographical margins of Kenya rest on the potential of public–private partnerships to fast-tract sustainable development through accelerated investments. Yet, the conceptualisation, planning and implementation of these visions often deploy a depoliticising development discourse that reinforces and expands long-standing misconceptions about the margins primarily directed at pastoral livelihoods and related communal land tenure. This paper illustrates how the implementation of a wind energy project employs the corporate strategies of depoliticising both land claims and development interventions. In Northern Kenya, private sector participation in large-scale wind energy infrastructure has created a complex development apparatus in which players are empowered to undertake the accelerated investments required to shape the delivery of the Kenya Vision 2030 in the region. An analysis of corporate actors’ strategies in the implementation of the contested wind farm presents a depoliticised framing of “low-cost green energy”, representations of pastoral land tenure and corporate social responsibility strategies through which dispossession is justified and legitimised. This case underscores the extent to which corporate counterresistance is shaped by the reproduction of a historical depoliticised discourse about pastoralism and communal tenure and challenges the traditional narrative of government hegemony against local resistance to large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs).

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Section: (C) Csr-greenwashing Dispossessionmentioning

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Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Gargule

2019

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“…Increasingly, authoritarian and militarized governance became the norm in this new national‐security era. The denationalization of resources and invitation of foreign capital fostered megadevelopment projects ranging from extraction to tourism, which disproportionally affected Black and Indigenous communities seeking autonomy and territorial control (Loperena ). Thus, transanational capital expresses in these current iterations the logics of white settler appropriation.…”

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The Persistence of White Supremacy: Indigenous Women Migrants and the Structures of Settler Capitalism

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2019

American Anthropologist

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Since the 2016 presidential election, there has been a resurgence of openly white supremacist discourse and action in the United States. The public debate following the election often suggested that Trump and his followers represented a backlash against the assumed progress of a multicultural and potentially even postracial society. However, the assumption inherent in this perspective, that white supremacy can be voted out or voted back in, is problematic. In this article, based on ten years of research with Indigenous women migrants from Mexico and Central America, I will apply an analytic of settler colonialism in order to explore how white supremacy is structured into our institutions and everyday social relations. In particular, I will consider the intersection of capitalism and the settler state, and how the changing needs of capitalism shape discourses of race differently over time yet remain fundamentally underwritten by white supremacist assumptions. Examining the shift from neoliberal multiculturalism to what I call neoliberal multicriminalism, I argue that neoliberal multiculturalism, with its accompanying discourses of tolerance and rights, may have reached its limits, and that the resurgence of open white supremacy is a response to the changing needs of white settler capitalist power. [white supremacy, patriarchy, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, migration]

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“…Paradoxically, this form of inclusion hinges upon repackaging coastal culture as uniquely Caribbean, black, and erotic. I suggest that the escalating value of Garifuna cultural difference was realized through a neoliberal appropriation of the racial geography outlined above and a growing consensus that Garifuna blackness could be harnessed to realize coastal tourism development imaginaries (Loperena ). This process of “racialization” (Omi and Winant ) reconstitutes the coast as a space of geographic and cultural alterity, positioning blackness as a central component of national development schemes, while ensuring that black people remain on the fringes of economic and political life.…”

Section: Multicultural Exclusionsmentioning

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Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double‐Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras

Loperena

2016

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e n En este artículo analizo la resistencia Garífuna ante el golpe de estado contra Manuel Rosales Zelaya. Me baso en entrevistas y conversaciones con activistas y observación participante en las protestas contra el golpe de estado en Tegucigalpa con el fin de explorar el significado y los objetivos de la resistencia cultural Garífuna en el periodo post-golpe. Argumento que la etnopolítica sirve para reforzar y desafiar las representaciones dominantes de la subjetividad folklórica Garífuna, las cuales son ampliamente diseminadas por la propaganda turística y la construcción de la identidad nacional por políticas multiculturales. También subrayo la forma en que los activistas Garífunas articularon sus demandas para la autonomía y los derechos territoriales con los objetivos del movimiento de resistencia nacional. Participación Garífuna en la Resistencia brindó la oportunidad de ser reconocidos como sujetos políticos-no como objetosy para aspirar a otra Honduras dentro de este movimiento multiétnico emergente. A b s t r a c tThis article analyzes Garifuna resistance to the 2009 coup against Manuel Rosales Zelaya. It draws on interviews and informal conversations with activists and participant observation in the anticoup protests in Tegucigalpa in order to explore the significance and aims of Garifuna cultural resistance in the postcoup period. Garifuna ethnopolitics reproduce and challenge dominant representations of Garifuna folkloric subjectivity, which are widely disseminated through tourism propaganda and statist constructions of multicultural national identity. The article also highlights the ways in which Garifuna activists articulated longstanding demands for territorial autonomy and land rights with the goals of the national resistance movement. For many, participation in the Resistance Radicalize Multiculturalism 517 518J o u r n a l o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n a n d C a r i b b e a n A n t h r o p o l o g y 522 J o u r n a l o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n a n d C a r i b b e a n A n t h r o p o l o g y

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Conservation by racialized dispossession: The making of an eco-destination on Honduras’s North Coast

Cited by 40 publications

References 24 publications

Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

The Persistence of White Supremacy: Indigenous Women Migrants and the Structures of Settler Capitalism

Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double‐Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras

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