Instituting Nature Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests

Name: Instituting Nature Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
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ISBN: 9780262516440

ISBN-10: 0262516446

ISBN-13: 9780262516440

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew S. Mathews, Peter M. Haas, Sheila Jasanoff

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Greater knowledge and transparency are often promoted as the keys to solving a wide array of governance problems. In Instituting Nature, Andrew Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced not by official declarations or scientists' expertise but by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico. Mathews charts the performances, collusions, complicities, and evasions that characterize the forestry bureaucracy. He shows that the authority of forestry officials is…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Andrew S. Mathews is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California,Santa Cruz.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments


Glossary of Institutions



Introduction



Building Forestry in Mexico: Ambitious Regulations and Popular Evasions



The Sierra Juarez 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



Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


References


Index