Rebuilding the <em>Patria</em> through Conservation: Revolution and Recovering the Public Good. A Review of Emily Wakild's <em>Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910-1940</em> (Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2011)

  • Autumn Quezada-Grant Roger Williams University
Keywords conservation, ecology, parks and recreation
Keywords conservation, ecology, parks and recreation

Abstract

A Review of Emily Wakild's Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910-1940 (Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2011).

Author Biography

Autumn Quezada-Grant, Roger Williams University
Autumn Quezada-Grant is an Assistant Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in 2010, in Latin American History. Her dissertation on Indian litigates in nineteenth-century Chiapas, Mexico examined the legal culture and patterns of negotiation and contestation between Highland indigenous groups with local ladino elites. The study of litigation and attempts at redress in the past helps us understand the present engagement of present day Maya in politics and rebellion. Dr. Quezada-Grant has a broad research interest, which include modern Latin America, indigenous history, social issues, and political movements. She is currently working on a book entitled Seasons of Discontent: Life, Labor and Litigation amongst Indians and Ladinos in Chiapas, Mexico, 1832-1911 as well as a large research project for a book titled "Healing Communities: History, Health and Hope in Post-Revolutionary Central America." She is also the co-editor and contributor for an edited volume in production titled Voices of the Unseen: Revolt and the Building of Radical Transnationalism with Professor John Maerhofer.
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Published
2013-05-31
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 3 (2013): Spring 2013
Section
Reviews: Nature, Society, and the Environment