Stealing Shining Rivers - Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic, and Conservation in a Mexican Forest

Named Best Social Sciences Book (Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section), this book describes how Chimalapas, a rainforest in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca, was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists. Molly Doane demonstrates that good intentions are not always enough to produce results that benefit both a habitat and its many different types of indigenous inhabitants.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Molly Doane
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780816535576
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3557-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 310 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology