Nicholas Copeland is a political anthropologist and Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and Sociology at Virginia Tech. He is coauthor of The World of Walmart: Discounting the American Dream (2013) and sole author of the forthcoming book The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala. His current research explores indigenous and peasant environmental politics in Guatemala.
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The Violent Landscapes of Sugar and Oil Palm
(Con traducción al español) To understand the confluence of transnational and local forces that drive migration from Central America, it is necessary to take st... More