Stealing shining rivers
Subtitle: agrarian conflict, market logic, and conservation in a Mexican forest
By: Molly Doane
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780816505920
Subjects: Politics and government; Political ecology; Commons; Land tenure; Environmental conditions; Economic conditions; Social conflict; Rural conditions; Capitalism; Rain forest conservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline of Important Events; title: Introduction: Practicing Political Ecology in Chimalapas; title: Section I. Time, Space, Politics; title: Shining Rivers : Chimalapas in Time and Space; title: Megaprojects in Mexico's South : Liberal Shadows in a Global Era; title: Section II. The Emergence of the Environment; title: Wild Places : The Production of Nature and the Environment; title: Imagining Chimalapas : Leadership, Legitimacy, and Representation; title: The Long-Distance Jaguar : Creating an Ecological Community in Chimalapas; title: Section III. The Politics of the Environment; title: Decentralized Authoritarianism : Political Control in Chimalapas; title: Please, No Politics : The Institutional Isolation of Maderas and the New Government Role; title: Conclusion: Decentralized Authoritarianism and Accumulation by Conservation in Chimalapas; title: Appendix A: List of Participants; title: Appendix B: Institutional Funding for Maderas del Pueblo between 1991 and 2000; title: Appendix C: Government Agencies in Chimalapas, 1995-2000; title: Appendix D: WWF Funding Lines, 1997-2000; title: Appendix E: Institutional Presence in Chimalapas, 2003-2008.