Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests

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Agrarian reform, 37, 97, 183. See also Ministries of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform; Reforms Agricultural, 9, 16, 33, 36, 44, 46–47, 59 burning, 12, 13, 41, 49, 57 communities, 51 (see also Communities) crops, 44, 67 development, 45 land, 36–37, 44–45 (see also Land) practices, 16 Agriculture, 33, 85 burning, 105–107, 114–115, 117–119 (see also Agropastoral) conceptual and institutional separation from forestry and forests, 43–46, 144–145 ecological zones in Sierra Juárez, 67–69 expansion and abandonment in the Sierra Juárez, 69–70, 80–81, 89-90, 121, 129, 135–144 fires, 105–107 (see also Agropastoral) knowledge as a critique of modern forestry, 142–144 milpa, 118, 137–139, 141–142 (see also Milpa) Ministry of, 44, 47, 109, 125, 171 subsistence, 90 swidden, 44, 106, 118, 120, 123, 137, 145, 210 (see also Swidden) zapotec understandings of agriculture and forests, 98–99 Agropastoral burning, 43, 46, 56, 58, 117–119, 153, 154–155 fires, 16, 154, 174, 195, 238 Alemán, Miguel, 113, 122 Anthropogenic forest, 89 Anthropologists, 7, 13, 24, 99, 162, 211, 239, 241 environmental, 4, 89 Anthropology, 11, 13, 23, 24, 179, 240 environmental, 26 Anti-concession movement, 132 Appropriation, 101, 140 Asamblea Comunal (Community Assembly), 111 Atepec, 106, 127–128, 131, 218 Audiences for performances of bureaucratic authority, 2–6, 11, 13–15, 17, 20–25, 101, 107, 109, 147–149, 151, 153, 155–157, 166, 169, 172, 174, 176, 200–202, 213, 221, 236–238, 240 rural, 107 urban, 41, 45, 57, 95, 106, 167–168, 173, 200, 212, 236 (see also Urban) Index Italicized page references indicate Spanish language, indigenous languages, or Latin names or titles (except for proper names). 292 Index Authority community, 214, 220–221 political and bureaucratic, 2, 4, 19–21, 96–98, 149–153, 167–169, 194–195, 199–200 technical, 43, 57, 58–60, 110–111 uncertain, 1, 4 Autonomy, 9–12, 27, 37, 58, 96, 142, 212, 214, 231 Azuela, Antonio, 160, 165, 169–170, 173, 176–177 Barad, Karen, 20 Barragan, Luis, 194 Biodiversity, 2, 7, 19, 21, 33, 69, 156, 171, 183, 185 protection, 32, 34, 152, 163, 180, 227, 231 protection institutions, 227, 231 Biologists (biólogos), 34, 54–55, 150, 162, 172, 186, 190 Bosque mesofilo, 66 Bracero migrant worker program, 80 Bribes (mordidas), 50, 104, 111, 183, 188, 225 Bureaucracy, 3, 7–9, 39, 50, 163– 164, 167, 169, 186, 201, 206, 220 authority, 21, 149 careers, 158, 167 control, 32, 95 federal, 59, 203, 213 indigenous forestry, 3, 220–223, 235–236 Mexican forestry, 3 as performance, 3 (see also Performances) transparency, 56 (see also Transparency) Burning agricultural or pastoral, 12–13, 43–44, 75–78, 89–90, 105–107, 118–119, 210 agricultural or pastoral, state regulation of, 46, 49, 56–57, 153–155, 157, 173–174, 192–195 agricultural or pastoral burning, community regulation of, 139–140 charcoal, 102–103 documents, 170 forests, 41, 83–89 history of, 82 use in war, 78–81 Campeche, 36 Campesinos, 52, 57 Capitalism, 8, 24 Carabias, Julia, 55, 162, 164–165, 169, 171–172, 174 Carbon, 1, 7, 19, 21, 32, 180, 236 Cárdenas, Alberto, 174 Cárdenas, Lázaro, 37–38, 41, 43–44, 50–51, 95–98 Cargos, 209, 213–219 hierarchies, 213–214 holders, 218–219 offices, 214 religious, 215 system, 96, 213–214, 216–217, 230 Caudillos, 70, 73, 77, 91 leaders, 91 CEMASREN, 59, 183 Change climate, 1–2, 19, 32, 39, 85, 95, 100–101, 115, 210, 231, 239 environmental, 25–26, 61, 120, 129, 140, 231 Chapingo, 28, 33–34, 48, 54, 162–163, 186 Charcoal, 52, 74, 102, 104, 110–111, 114, 155, 194–196 burners, 49, 105 burning, 52, 99, 102–103, 130, 154 Chávez Morado, Jose, 17–18, 151. See also Nube de mentiras Chiapas, 36, 205 Chihuahua, 36 Chinantec, 61, 94 indigenous people, 122 Ciudadanos (citizens), 1, 31, 40, 98, 107–108, 202, 212–213, 216, 230, 237, 241 Civic epistemologies, 24, 202, 232, 237 Index 293 Climate, 27, 31, 34, 40–41, 65–67, 88, 94, 99–101, 208 change, 1–2, 19, 32, 39, 85, 95, 100–101, 114–115, 210, 239 control, 105 Cochineal, 5 boom, 68, 70 cactus, 67–68 dye, 70, 90 dye production, 68 farmers, 70 fields, 90 insect, 63, 68 trade networks, 68–69 Coffee, 66, 69, 72, 123, 135...