Decolonizing Development Colonial Power and

Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology))Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya

Joel Wainwright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University.

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction: Capitalism qua Development	p. 1
Colonizing the Maya	p. 39
Unsettling the Colonial Geographies of Southern Belize	p. 41
The Matter of the Maya Farm System	p. 69
An Archaeology of Mayanism	p. 99
Aporias of Development	p. 151
From Colonial to Development Knowledge: Charles Wright and the Battles over the Columbia River Forest	p. 153
Settling: Fieldwork in the Ruins of Development	p. 200
Finishing the Critique of Cultural Ecology: Reading the Maya Atlas	p. 241
Conclusion	p. 282
Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 309
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Decolonizing Development Colonial Power and the Maya

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