Timeline of Important Events -- Introduction : Practicing Political Ecology in Chimalapas -- Time, Space, Politics. Shining Rivers : Chimalapas in Time and Space ; Megaprojects in Mexico's South : Liberal Shadows in a Global Era -- 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 -- 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
Summary
What happens to Indigenous people when their homelands are declared - by well-intentioned outsiders - to be precious environmental habitats? In this book, the author 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. This case study approach shows that good intentions are not always enough to produce results that benefit both a habitat and its many different types of inhabitants
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index
