{"id":1718,"date":"2019-04-08T20:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:19:42","slug":"professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Megan Ybarra’s Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Our department’s congratulations go to Professor Megan Ybarra, whose book Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest<\/em>, won the\u00a02019 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference in Washington, D.C.! As profiled in this article on the website for the UW Center for Human Rights<\/a>, the book “examines how environmental projects have contributed to the criminalization and displacement of Q\u2019eqchi\u2019 Maya communities in lowlands Guatemala. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our department’s congratulations go to Professor Megan Ybarra, whose book Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest, won the\u00a02019 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference in Washington, D.C.! As profiled in this article on the website for the UW Center for Human Rights, the<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":1719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nProfessor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference - Latin America and Caribbean Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference - Latin America and Caribbean Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our department’s congratulations go to Professor Megan Ybarra, whose book Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest, won the\u00a02019 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference in Washington, D.C.! As profiled in this article on the website for the UW Center for Human Rights, the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Latin America and Caribbean Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-08T20:18:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-04-08T20:19:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"303\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"xmnaprz7\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"xmnaprz7\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/\",\"name\":\"Professor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference - Latin America and Caribbean Studies\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-08T20:18:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-08T20:19:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#\/schema\/person\/52d1b24f8bd3c5b18b6b020f2e782639\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg\",\"width\":275,\"height\":303},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Professor Megan Ybarra’s Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/\",\"name\":\"Latin America and Caribbean Studies\",\"description\":\"Program of the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#\/schema\/person\/52d1b24f8bd3c5b18b6b020f2e782639\",\"name\":\"xmnaprz7\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8a30f091f3c99ebbba63ed64edd7c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8a30f091f3c99ebbba63ed64edd7c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"xmnaprz7\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/author\/xmnaprz7\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Professor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference - Latin America and Caribbean Studies","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Professor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference - Latin America and Caribbean Studies","og_description":"Our department’s congratulations go to Professor Megan Ybarra, whose book Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest, won the\u00a02019 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference in Washington, D.C.! As profiled in this article on the website for the UW Center for Human Rights, the","og_url":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/","og_site_name":"Latin America and Caribbean Studies","article_published_time":"2019-04-08T20:18:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-04-08T20:19:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":275,"height":303,"url":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"xmnaprz7","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"xmnaprz7"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/","url":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/","name":"Professor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference - Latin America and Caribbean Studies","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg","datePublished":"2019-04-08T20:18:32+00:00","dateModified":"2019-04-08T20:19:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#\/schema\/person\/52d1b24f8bd3c5b18b6b020f2e782639"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/megan_ybarra_uc_press-e1554754773684.jpg","width":275,"height":303},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/professor-megan-ybarras-green-wars-wins-award-at-the-2019-american-association-of-geographers-conference\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Professor Megan Ybarra’s Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#website","url":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/","name":"Latin America and Caribbean Studies","description":"Program of the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#\/schema\/person\/52d1b24f8bd3c5b18b6b020f2e782639","name":"xmnaprz7","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8a30f091f3c99ebbba63ed64edd7c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8a30f091f3c99ebbba63ed64edd7c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"xmnaprz7"},"url":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/news\/author\/xmnaprz7\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/latinam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}