Instituting nature authority, expertise, and power in Mexican forests / Andrew S. Mathews.

Author/creator Mathews, Andrew S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
Descriptionxii, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Zapotec Indians--Mexico. --Ixtlán de Juárez. --Social conditions.
Zapotec Indians--Mexico. --Ixtlán de Juárez. --Government relations.
Ethnoecology--Mexico. --Ixtlán de Juárez.
Forests and forestry--Mexico. --Ixtlán de Juárez.
Forest management--Mexico. --Ixtlán de Juárez.
Forest conservation--Mexico. --Ixtlán de Juárez.
Ixtlán de Juárez (Mexico)--Politics and government.
Ixtlán de Juárez (Mexico)--Social conditions.
Ixtlán de Juárez (Mexico)--Environmental conditions.

SeriesPolitics, science, and the environment series
Politics, science, and the environment. ^A477004
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-290) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011009095
ISBN9780262016520 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780262516440 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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