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RAMIREZ COVER, Alonso; RODRIGUEZ ECHAVARRIA, Tania; HENRY, Laura  y  BLANCO RAMIREZ, Sara. Domesticating territory: genealogy of cocoa’s technological transfer in Talamanca, Costa Rica in the 20^th Century. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2022, n.81, pp.71-105.  Epub 01-Ene-2022. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.81.2022.802.

This article explores how current projects focused on promoting modernization of farms in Talamanca through the production of sustainable cocoa are in fact based on historical discursive formations presuming that the relationship between indigenous people and nature is irrational and problematic due to its low productivity. It will be explained how, since the beginning of the 20th century, the State, along with research centers and private companies, have demanded the optimization of agricultural land uses in indigenous territories, foreshadowing the production of commodities for export, as the only solution to these perceived problems. These discursive formations -including the racial constructions of the indigenous people- are still essential to understand the logic of intervention of cocoa today. This case demonstrates how development imposes monocultural values and how these ideas are implemented and resisted.

Palabras llave : cocoa; Costa Rica; intervention; monoculture; sustainable.

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