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The (Mis)Use of Disaster as Opportunity: Coerced Relocation from Celaque National Park, Honduras.
- Source :
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Antipode . Sep2011, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p1357-1379. 23p. 3 Charts, 2 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- 'Disaster capitalism' refers to political economic processes that take advantage of mass trauma to impose neoliberal capitalist economic policies, facilitating the redistribution of wealth and exacerbating socio-economic divisions. Here the basic tenets of disaster capitalism are applied in another context: how natural disasters can be used to impose exclusionary protected area conservation principles with similar socio-economic consequences and ecological ramifications. The post-Hurricane Mitch relocation of resident populations from Celaque National Park, Honduras serves as a case study whereby a natural disaster, combined with the effects of neoliberal structural adjustment policies, created the opportunity to implement a universal model of exclusionary nature protection. The resultant displacement and increased semi-proletarianization of the affected population effectively served the capitalist interests of international conservation and the agro-export coffee industry and, contradictorily, worked against the proclaimed goals of nature preservation through exclusionary national park policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00664812
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Antipode
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 64115495
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00865.x