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

Contents

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi List of Agencies/Acronyms xiii Timeline of Important Events xvii Introduction: Practicing Political Ecology in Chimalapas 1 Section I. Time, Space, Politics 1. Shining Rivers: Chimalapas in Time and Space 27 2. Megaprojects in Mexico’s South: Liberal Shadows in a Global Era 52 Section II. The Emergence of the Environment 3. Wild Places: The Production of Nature and the Environment 71 4. Imagining Chimalapas: Leadership, Legitimacy, and Representation 84 5. The Long-Distance Jaguar: Creating an Ecological Community in Chimalapas 105 Section III. The Politics of the Environment 6. Decentralized Authoritarianism: Political Control in Chimalapas 125 7. Please, No Politics: The Institutional Isolation of Maderas and the New Government Role 143 Conclusion: Decentralized Authoritarianism and Accumulation by Conservation in Chimalapas 160 Appendix A. List of Participants 171 Appendix B. Institutional Funding for Maderas del Pueblo between 1991 and 2000 173 Appendix C. Government Agencies in Chimalapas, 1995–2000 174 Appendix D. WWF Funding Lines, 1997–2000 175 Appendix E. Institutional Presence in Chimalapas, 2003–2008 176 References 177 Index 197 ...