Rescuing Patrimonio: The Contested Creation of a National Park Paper Arrows

Episode IV: Rescuing Patrimonio
Today’s podcast begins delving into the politics and practice of environmental conservation in Olancho. It describes the contingent process by which a melange of local and nonlocal actors gradually cobbled consent among Gualaqueño coffee growers to a new set of cultivation practices and norms that would allow for the creation and maintenance of a new national park in the Sierra de Agalta. This section also identifies a couple of flies in the ointment that would eventually doom the arrangement. First, Olanchanos’ radically different gloss on the word “heritage” from the meaning attached to it within the lexicon of global environmental governance reveals an agreement founded on mutual misunderstanding. Second, as we will explore further in Episode 5, the weak Honduran central state would prove a faithless guarantor of the fragile compact forged between local farmers and outside conservationists.
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I owe a great intellectual debt to my research participants as well as to many journalists, historians, and social-science researchers. In the podcast, I sometimes shorthand the fuller citations contained in the written version of my master's thesis. Here, however, are the works I cite in that volume:
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