Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests

摘要: 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 past hundred years manage its forests through forestry science biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent was produced not by official declarations or scientists' expertise but encounters between relatively weak bureaucracy indigenous people who own pine Mexico. charts performances, collusions, complicities, evasions characterize bureaucracy. authority officials is undermined tension local realities national policy; must juggle sweeping claims mundane concealments, ambitious regulations routine rule breaking. Moving from government offices in Mexico City state Oaxaca, how bureaucratic practices came Oaxaca 1930s environmental political contexts set stage for resistance. tells Zapotec learned theory practice industrial employees then put these skills use when they become owners managers area's -- eventually incorporating into their successful autonomy state. Despite apparently small scale this balancing act power resistance communities, it has large implications we understand modern state, scientific knowledge, global carbon markets which Mexican might valuable.