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The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid, accessible, and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy. Mendoza explores the fraught intersection of the green economy with the New Left politics of the Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner governments. Mendoza documents the strategies of capitalist development, national representation, and political rule embedded in the "green productivist" agenda pursued by Kirchner and Fernández. Mendoza shows how Andean Patagonian communities have responded to the challenges of community-based conservation, the fashioning of wilderness zones, and the drive to create place-based monopolies that allow ecotourism destinations to compete in the global consumer economy.

Ecotourism --- Capitalism --- Nature conservation --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- TRAVEL / Special Interest / Ecotourism. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. --- NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains. --- TRAVEL / South America / Argentina. --- TRAVEL / South America / Chile & Easter Island. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism --- Economic aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Conservation --- Argentina --- Politics and government --- Patagonia, Argentina, adventure, trekking, ecotourism, conservation, politics, green economy, Kirchner-Fernandez, national park, environment, environmental politics, anthropology, ecology, capitalism, globalization, Latin America, New Left, Los Glaciares National Park, El Chalten, Andean Patagonian.