Social and Cultural Capital: Empowerment for Sustainable Development in the MOUNTAINS OF ESCAZU, COST by Phillip J. Montoya - HTML preview

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................4

                Entering the Field

                Outline of this Study

CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH METHODS..............................................................................21

                Participant Observation

                Interviews

                Meetings and Archival Research

                Rural Diagnostic Survey

                "Native" Anthropologist

                Power and Ethnographic Representation

                From Data to Theory

CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.................................................................36

                The Hegemony of Development Ideology

                Sustainable Development: Erasing Contradictions

                Cracks in the Hegemony of Reconciliation

                Mainstream-Critical Divide in Costa Rica

                Civil Society and Social Movements

                Social and Cultural Capital

                Power and Empowerment

                Measuring Sustainability

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 4 THE NATIONAL CONTEXT......................................................................69

                Introduction

                Early Period: Transforming the Landscape

                1900-1949: The Politics of Reconciliation

                1950s-1970s: The Contradictions of Becoming "Modern"

                1980s: The "Lost Decade"

                1990s: The Hegemony of Sustainable Development.

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 5 THE BIRTH OF CODECE: COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE

                OF THE MOUNTAINS OF ESCAZU....................................................................90

                Introduction

                The Setting

                Romano Sancho

                Paulina Chaverri

                Rodolfo León

                The Birth of CODECE

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 6 CODECE'S LEGAL STRUGGLES.............................................................117

                Introduction

                Appropriating the Application of the Law

                CODECE Attempts to Change the Law

                CODECE Becomes an NGO

                Legal Power to the People: Course in Environmental Law

                Opus Dei: Threat to the Protection Zone

                Regulation Plan

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 7 TRANSFORMING THE LOCAL CULTURE.............................................164

                Introduction

                Strengthening a Relationship with the Mountains

                The Communal Forest

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 8 CREATING A NATIONAL MOVEMENT................................................200

                Introduction

                CODECE Joins COPROALDE

                The BASD and the Creation of CONAO

                Projects, Financing and Demobilization

                "Economic Calculus"

                Unfreezing the Imagination

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 9 CAMPESINOS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF ESCAZU: A MEASURE

                OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT................................................................241

                Introduction

                The Local Context

                CODECE Promotes Organic Farming

                Promoting Traditional Practices

                Gerardo Burro: The Mascarero

                The Measure of CODECE's Contributions

                Macro Tendencies

                Campesino Measures of Sustainability

                Antonio Solís: To Be a Small Farmer

                Conclusion

CHAPTER 10 CONCLUSION.........................................................................................288

                Introduction

                Diluting Differences

                Social and Cultural Capital: Means of Empowerment

                The Contradictions of Economic Capital

                NGOs and the Community

                The Prospects of Sustainable Development

APPENDIX: TIMELINE..................................................................................................310

REFERENCES.................................................................................................................315