Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity

Contents

CONTENTS Preface ix Virginia D. Nazarea Conservation beyond Design: An Introduction 3 Virginia D. Nazarea and Robert E. Rhoades I. Marginality and Memory in Place-Based Conservation 1 Temptation to Hope: From the “Idea” to the Milieu of Biodiversity 19 Virginia D. Nazarea 2 Apples of Their Eyes: Memory Keepers of the American South 42 Susannah Chapman and Tom Brown 3 Food from the Ancestors: Documentation, Conservation, and Revival of Eastern Cherokee Heirloom Plants 65 James R. Veteto and Kevin Welch 4 Sense of Place and Indigenous People’s Biodiversity Conservation in the Americas 85 Tirso Gonzales 5 Saving Our Seeds: An Indigenous Perspective from Cotacachi, Ecuador 107 Magdalena Fueres, Rodrigo Flores, and Rosita Ramos 6 People, Place, and Plants in the Pacific Coast of Colombia 115 Juana Camacho viii Contents II. Agency and Reterritorialization in the Context of Globalization 7 Maya Mother Seeds in Resistance of Highland Chiapas in Defense of Native Corn 151 Peter Brown 8 Preserving Soybean Diversity in Japan 177 Richard Moore 9 Complementarity and Conflict: In Situ and Ex Situ Approaches to Conserving Plant Genetic Resources 196 Cary Fowler 10 Situated Meanings of Key Concepts in the Regulation of Plant Genetic Resources 214 Kristine Skarbø 11 Exile Landscapes of Nostalgia and Hope in the Cuban Diaspora 240 Jenna E. Andrews-Swann 12 When Seeds Are Scarce: Globalization and the Response of Three Cultures 262 Robert E. Rhoades Contributors 287 Index 291 ...