书目名称 | Dams, Displacement and Development | 副标题 | Perspectives from Rí | 编辑 | Nathan Einbinder | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides a unique, in-depth look at the effects of mega-development projects in the developing world.Includes open-ended interviews with members of the Guatemalan community in Río Negro who were displ | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Using the case of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala, constructed between 1978 and 1983, this book examines the effects of displacement on the former residents of Río Negro, a community forcibly evicted and nearly eliminated by the military and paramilitary. Using open-ended interview discussions and testimonies, it focuses on this specific incident of displacement and violence and discusses the outcomes 30 years later. Guatemala’s history is plagued by development projects that resulted in displacement, violence, and increased marginalization of its indigenous and non-indigenous populations. In order to make way for development initiatives such as the production of bananas, African palm, coffee and sugar cane; the extraction of metals such as gold and nickel; or, in this specific case, the construction of a hydroelectric dam, the land-based, predominately Maya campesinos have been systematically uprooted from the lands of their birth and launched into uncertainty..Theresearch findings presented, based on fieldwork conducted from January to April 2009, suggest that the majority of survivors from the massacres that took place are still adversely affected by the destruction o | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | Indigenous Communities; Guatemala; Chixoy Dam; Displacement; Mega-Development Projects; Armed Conflict; En | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51511-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-51510-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-51511-3Series ISSN 2366-763X Series E-ISSN 2366-7648 | issn_series | 2366-763X | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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