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Stealing Shining Rivers: Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic, and Conservation in a Mexican Forest,Used
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Winner, Best Social Sciences Book (Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section)What happens to indigenous people when their homelands are declared by wellintentioned outsiders to be precious environmental habitats? In this revelatory book, Molly Doane describes how a rain forest in Mexicos southern state of Oaxaca was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists who initially wanted to conserve its biodiversity. Her 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.Doane begins by showing how Chimalapastranslated as shining rivershas been produced in various ways over time, from a worthless wasteland to a priceless asset. Focusing on a series of environmental projects that operated between 1990 and 2008, she reveals that environmentalists attempted to recast agrarian disputeswhich actually stemmed from governmentsupported corporate incursions into community lands and from unequal land redistributionas environmental problems.Doane focuses in particular on the attempt throughout the 1990s to establish a Campesino Ecological Reserve in Chimalapas. Supported by major grants from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), this effort to foster and merge agrarian and environmental interests was ultimately unsuccessful because it was seen as politically threatening by the state. By 2000, the Mexican government had convinced the WWF to redirect its conservation monies to the state government and its agencies.The WWF eventually abandoned attempts to establish an enclosure nature reserve in the region or to gain community acceptance for conservation. Instead, working from a new marketbased model of conservation, the WWF began paying cash to individuals for environmental services such as reforestation and environmental monitoring.
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