Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental ... - 9781009454544

Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental RelationsAuthor(s): Levi Gahman, Filiberto Penados, Cristina Coc, Shelda-Jane Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009454544, 978-1009454544\nSynopsis\nThis 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 Q?eqchi? 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 .