
Instituting Nature : Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests.
Title:
Instituting Nature : Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests.
Author:
Mathews, Andrew S.
ISBN:
9780262298537
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Series:
Politics, Science, and the Environment
Contents:
Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Institutions -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Setting the Stage -- Uncertain Authority -- Indigenous Bureaucracy in Oaxaca -- State-Making and the Production of Knowledge and Ignorance -- Making Things Technical, Making Things Political -- Writing Resistance Into History: Nature, Culture, and Human Agency -- Methods -- Chapter 2. Building Forestry in Mexico: Ambitious Regulations and Popular Evasions -- A Brief History of Mexican Forests -- Revolution and Environmental Order -- Mexican Environmentalism and the Valley of Mexico -- Regulating Forests -- Dangerous Papers: Transport Documents and Burning Permits -- Forest Industrialization as Progress, 1940 - 1972 -- The Decline of Industrial Forestry and the Rise of Community Forestry -- Foresters' Careers: From State Employees to Private Entrepreneurs -- Bureaucratic Transparency and the Opacity of Local Knowledge -- Political Culture: Stable Discourses and Unstable Institutions -- Chapter 3. The Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca: Mobile Landscapes, Political Economy, and the Fires of War -- The Environment of the Sierra Juárez: Topography, Climate, Vegetation, and Cultivation -- Conquest, Demographic Collapse, and Commodity Production -- The Sierra Ju á rez as Military Landscape -- Making Communal Territory in the Sierra Juárez -- The Mining Boom of the Nineteenth Century -- Impacts of Fire and Grazing on Nineteenth-Century Landscapes -- Unleashing the Fires of War: Revolution in the Sierra, 1912 - 1925 -- Mobile Pines and Changing Forests -- Landscapes in Motion: Pines, Oaks, and Fires -- Chapter 4. Forestry Comes to Oaxaca: Bureaucrats, Gangsters, and Indigenous Communities, 1926 - 1956 -- Forestry Comes to Oaxaca -- Cárdenas in Oaxaca: Community Politics and Environmental Restoration.
Zapotec Views of Forests and Agriculture Before the Arrival of Industrial Logging -- Relationship Between Forests and Climate -- The Impact of the Forest Service Between 1930 and 1956 -- Fire Suppression and Climate Control in the Sierra -- State Nature Rituals: The Día del Árbol -- Logging in the Sierra, 1934-1956 -- Biological Impacts of Logging -- The Defeat of State Elites and the Rise of Industrial Logging -- Traveling Theories: Official Ideology and Popular Understandings ofForests -- Chapter 5. Industrial Forestry, Watershed Control, and the Rise of Community Forestry, 1956-2001 -- The Floods of 1944 and the Creation of the Papaloapan Commission -- Industrial Forestry Arrives in Oaxaca -- Forestry Meets Resistance: Negotiations over Logging -- Economic and Ecological Impact of Logging, 1958-1982 -- The Struggle Against FAPATUX and the Rise of Community Forestry -- Indigenous Identity and the Struggle for Control of the Forests -- Land Use Change in Ixtlán, 1945 - 2001: The Decline of Agriculture -- Fire Becomes Wild as People Become Urban: The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of Forestry -- Community Forestry: Resistance, Hybridization, or Appropriation? -- Imposing Degradation Histories on the State -- Traditional Agroecological Knowledge as a Critique of Modern Forestry -- Discourse, Power, and Memory -- Chapter 6. The Mexican Forest Service: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Power -- Conventional Knowledge at the Convention: Bureaucratic Authority and the Rhetoric of Numbers -- State Power and the Danger of Public Secrets -- Representing Success, Silencing Failure: Rhetoric of Fire and Firewood -- Knowledge-Making in the Labyrinth: Bureaucratic Careers and the Danger of Reports -- Portraits of Three Functionaries -- Institutional Instability and Personal Uncertainty -- Translating and Obscuring within the Bureaucracy.
Obscurity, Numbers, and Translations -- Regulations, Representations, and Alliances: Fire Control, Firewood Cutting, and Tree Planting -- Fire and Firewood Regulations: Performing a Knowing Institution -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7. The Acrobatics of Transparency and Obscurity: Forestry Regulations Travel to Oaxaca -- Institutional Ecologies in Oaxaca -- Daily Paperwork at Headquarters -- Tricky Allies -- Corruption Stories and Professional Life -- Acrobatics of Transparency: Fire, Firewood, and Management Plans -- Fire, Firewood, and the Rhetoric of Transparency -- State-Making and Knowledge -- Chapter 8. Working the Indigenous Industrial -- Traveling to Ixtlán -- Making Knowledge by Appealing to Other Places -- Community and Indigeneity -- Politics and Cargos -- Office Holding -- Building Bureaucracy in the Forest -- Alliance Building and Brokerage -- State and Community Alliances -- Conclusions -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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