Liberal Arts Faculty Books
The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics
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Description
The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid, accessible, and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy. Mendoza explores the fraught intersection of the green economy with the New Left politics of the Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner governments. Mendoza documents the strategies of capitalist development, national representation, and political rule embedded in the “green productivist” agenda pursued by Kirchner and Fernández. Mendoza shows how Andean Patagonian communities have responded to the challenges of community-based conservation, the fashioning of wilderness zones, and the drive to create place-based monopolies that allow ecotourism destinations to compete in the global consumer economy.
ISBN
9780813596761
Publication Date
2018
Relational Format
book
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Disciplines
Tourism and Travel
Recommended Citation
Mendoza, Marcos, "The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics" (2018). Liberal Arts Faculty Books. 83.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/83