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Stealing shining rivers : agrarian conflict, market logic, and conservation in a Mexican forest /
What happens to Indigenous people when their homelands are declared - by well-intentioned outsiders - to be precious environmental habitats? In this book, the author describes how a rain forest in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists who initially wan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What happens to Indigenous people when their homelands are declared - by well-intentioned outsiders - to be precious environmental habitats? In this book, the author describes how a rain forest in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists who initially wanted to conserve its biodiversity. This 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0816599440 9780816599448 0816535574 9780816535576 |