Christopher Loperena, the César Chávez Fellow for 2011-12, is a Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at the University of Texas, at Austin in the African Diaspora Program. He holds a MA in Latin American Studies, also from UT Austin, and a BA from the University of Chicago. His dissertation investigates struggles over land and cultural resources against the background of neoliberal tourism development on the north coast of Honduras, the native territory of the Afro-indigenous Garifuna people. His dissertation is entitled: "A Fragmented Paradise: The politics of development and land use on the Garifuna Coast."
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