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The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

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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

The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

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