Doane, Molly, 1966-

Stealing shining rivers agrarian conflict, market logic, and conservation in a Mexican forest / [electronic resource] : Molly Doane. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012. - xviii, 203 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-196) and index.

Timeline of Important Events -- Introduction: Practicing Political Ecology in Chimalapas -- Section I. Time, Space, Politics -- Shining Rivers : Chimalapas in Time and Space -- Megaprojects in Mexico's South : Liberal Shadows in a Global Era -- Section II. The Emergence of the Environment -- Wild Places : The Production of Nature and the Environment -- Imagining Chimalapas : Leadership, Legitimacy, and Representation -- The Long-Distance Jaguar : Creating an Ecological Community in Chimalapas -- Section III. The Politics of the Environment -- Decentralized Authoritarianism : Political Control in Chimalapas -- Please, No Politics : The Institutional Isolation of Maderas and the New Government Role -- Conclusion: Decentralized Authoritarianism and Accumulation by Conservation in Chimalapas -- Appendix A: List of Participants -- Appendix B: Institutional Funding for Maderas del Pueblo between 1991 and 2000 -- Appendix C: Government Agencies in Chimalapas, 1995-2000 -- Appendix D: WWF Funding Lines, 1997-2000 -- Appendix E: Institutional Presence in Chimalapas, 2003-2008.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Rain forest conservation--Political aspects--Mexico--Chimalapas Region.
Political ecology--Mexico--Chimalapas Region.
Social conflict--Mexico--Chimalapas Region.
Commons--Mexico--Chimalapas Region.
Land tenure--Political aspects--Mexico--Chimalapas Region.
Capitalism--Environmental aspects--Mexico--Chimalapas Region.


Chimalapas Region (Mexico)--Environmental conditions.
Chimalapas Region (Mexico)--Politics and government.
Chimalapas Region (Mexico)--Rural conditions.
Chimalapas Region (Mexico)--Economic conditions.


Electronic books.

SD414.M5 / D62 2012

333.750972/74