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Author Doane, Molly, 1966-

Title Stealing shining rivers [electronic resource] : agrarian conflict, market logic, and conservation in a Mexican forest / Molly Doane.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 203 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-196) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780816505920 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780816599448 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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