Stealing Shining Rivers: Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic, and Conservation in a Mexican Forest
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816505926 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Doane asks: what happens to the rights, livelihoods, and futures of indigenous peoples when seemingly well-meaning outsiders decide that their vision of ecological futures is more sustainable than the visions of local land holders or local states? This book should be widely read; both because it is an example of the best anthropology has to offer ethnographically and theoretically and because the answer to Doane s central question is the key to understanding social and environmental justice for Indigenous peoples globally. In this book she takes one of the central questions in contemporary environmental governance head on. Macip, Dialectical Anthropology""Doane does an excellent job of untangling the complexities of Chimalapas and crit
Supported by major grants from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), this effort to foster and merge agrarian and environmental interests was ultimately unsuccessful because it was seen as politically threatening by the state. What happens to indigenous people when their homelands are declared by well-intentioned outsiders to be precious environmental habitats? In this revelatory book, Molly Doane describes how a rain forest in Mexico s southern state of Oaxaca was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists who initially wanted to conserve its biodiversity. The WWF eventually abandoned attempts to establish an enclosure nature reserve in the region or to gain community acceptance for conservation. Doane focuses in particular on the attempt throughout the 1990s to establish a Campesino Ecological Reserve in Chimalapas. By 2000, the Mexican government had convinced the WWF to redirect its conserva
. Molly Doane is an assistant professor of anthropology and a faculty fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
"Good School Text" according to Tom Mitchell. Excellent book on extinction. The book really depicts the fragile balance of the environment found in the Madagascar and the challenges of extinction that face the isolated species.