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Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize

For Q’eqchi’ and Mopan communities of Toledo District, resisting land grabs and stewarding the commons are central to struggles to protect territory, heritage, and collective ways of being.

Pages 294-304 | Published online: 30 Aug 2023
 

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Roberto Kus

Roberto Kus is a Maya community outreach worker with the Maya Leaders Alliance and Julian Cho Society. He is from and resides in Punta Gorda, Belize, and took all the photographs and sourced all the translations that appear in this article.

Levi Gahman

Levi Gahman is a Reader at the University of Liverpool, faculty affiliate with the University of the West Indies, and former human rights observer. He focuses on emancipatory politics, environmental conflict, and movement-relevant research.

Adaeze Greenidge

Adaeze Greenidge is an independent researcher from Trinidad and Tobago focusing on wellbeing, environmental justice, and anticolonial alternatives. Currently based in Jamaica, she has a background in psychology, gender, and development.

Filiberto Penados

Filiberto Penados is a Maya activist-scholar from Belize focusing on participatory methods and Indigenous future-making. He is President of the Julian Cho Society and adviser to the Toledo Alcaldes Association and Belize National Indigenous Council.

Shelda-Jane Smith

Shelda-Jane Smith is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Her work aims to understand the sociocultural and political determinants of physical-mental health by focusing on institutional and grassroots practices of health and care.

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