Narco-Cattle Ranching in Political Forests
Narco-Cattle Ranching in Political Forests
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DOI：
10.1111/anti.12469
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发表时间：
2020-07-01
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5
通讯作者：
Langarica, Yunuen Reygadas
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作者：
Devine, Jennifer A.;Wrathall, David;Langarica, Yunuen Reygadas
在中美洲，毒品贩子正在通过一种被称为毒品-加纳迪亚，即毒品-牛牧场的过程来砍伐该地区剩余的森林和保护区。通过对老虎拉古纳湖国家公园的案例研究，本文认为，毒品养牛场是危地马拉玛雅生物圈保护区森林砍伐的关键驱动力。使用人种学和遥感方法，我们描述了毒品牛牧场的洗钱做法，其领土动态，及其对环境的影响。我们利用“政治森林”的理论来解释贩毒组织如何改变保护区的土地使用，并在此过程中重塑其生态、领土和主题。我们的工作表明，毒品政策与美洲的保护政策密不可分。更具体地说，我们认为，以社区为基础的资源管理通过加强地方治理和土地保有权制度，提高了森林和保护区居民抵制与贩毒有关的土地利用变化的能力。
In Central America, drug traffickers are deforesting the region's remaining forests and protected areas through a process known as narco-ganaderia, narco-cattle ranching. Drawing on the case study of Laguna del Tigre National Park, this article argues that narco-cattle ranching is a key driver of deforestation in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Using ethnographic and remote-sensing methods, we describe narco-cattle ranching's money-laundering practices, its territorial dynamics, and its environmental impacts. We draw on theorisations of "political forests" to explain how drug trafficking organisations transform land use in the reserve, and along the way, remake its ecology, territories and subjects. Our work illustrates that drug policy is inextricably linked to conservation policy in the Americas. More specifically, we argue that community-based resource management improves forest and protected area residents' abilities to resist drug-trafficking related land use change by strengthening local governance and land tenure regimes.