SDL: Sustained Destruction around a Communal Reserve in Peruvian Amazonia

This Sussex Development Lecture will discuss a paper focused on the evolution of a road beside a Communal Reserve in Peruvian Amazonia, considering the use and narrative power of the concept of ‘sustainable development’ within local, national and international cultures and discourses.

Based on over two decades of ethnographic fieldwork in indigenous and mixed-heritage communities on the Ucayali River, a current collaborative project on co-management of the Reserve and analysis of social media the paper examines how competing and shared visions of desired futures interact with global conceptions of development in ongoing debates about local transformations of the landscape and economy.

Through a consideration of political rhetoric, public self-representation and actions on the ground the paper considers the apparent convergences as well as divergences between understandings of individual and collective social, economic and environmental well-being in this complex cultural matrix even as the permanence of the road and its associated cattle pastures seems ever more inevitable.

Speaker
Dr. Evan Killick (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex)

Chair
Professor Michael Collyer (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex)

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