Instituting Nature
Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2011
Summary
A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.Greater knowledge and transparency are often promoted as the keys to solving a wide array of governance problems. In Instituting Nature, Andrew Mathews describes Mexico’s efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced not by offi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262516440 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262516446 |
| Author: | Andrew S. Mathews |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Politics, Science, and the Environment |
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…Mathews offers a provocative, new approach to environmental research, one that is rooted in anthropology and social forestry but would be equally at home in a geography, sociology, conservation biology, STS, or policy class. The text would be highly useful for graduate students and senior-level undergraduates.
—Nora Haenn, Human EcologyIn this fascinating book, Andrew Mathews studies, with much great detail and in great depth, the ways in which Mexico dealt with the protection and management of forests in the twentieth century, particularly between 1926 and 2001. Mathews’s study, which is wonderfully researched and very well written, traces the roles of the modern state, bureaucracy, science, conservation, and indigenous communities, among other factors, in the dynamic between Mexican forests and the people that surround them.
—Camilo Quintero, ISISAndrew Mathews has produced an engaging and theoretically rich text that spans disciplines and draws important conclusions about our understandings of knowledge, nature, and the modern state.
—Alexander J. Myers, Rural SociologyAbout The Author
Andrew S. Mathews
Andrew S. Mathews is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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