Instituting nature : authority, expertise, and power in Mexican forests /
Andrew S. Mathews.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- xii, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Politics, science, and the environment series .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-290) and index.
Building forestry in Mexico: ambitious regulations and popular evasions -- The Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca: mobile landscapes, political economy, and the fires of war -- Forestry comes to Oaxaca: bureaucrats, gangsters, and indigenous communities, 1926-1956 -- Industrial forestry, watershed control, and the rise of community forestry, 1956-2001 -- The Mexican forest service: knowledge, ignorance, and power -- The acrobatics of transparency and obscurity: forestry regulations travel to Oaxaca -- Working the indigenous industrial.
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Zapotec Indians--Social conditions.--Mexico--Ixtlan de Juarez Zapotec Indians--Industries--Mexico--Ixtlán de Juárez. Zapotec Indians--Government relations.--Mexico--Ixtlán de Juárez Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Mexico--Ixtlan de Juarez. Forests and forestry--Mexico--Ixtlan de Juarez. Forest management--Mexico--Ixtlán de Juárez. Forest conservation--Mexico--Ixtlan de Juárez.