... Meseta Purépecha political landscapes scientific forestry Sierra Tarahumara ...

... commodification railroads Porfirio Díaz Purépecha (Tarascans) Rarámuri (Tarahumara) ...

... a project known as the Coordinating Center of the Tarahumara ( Centro Coordinador de la Tarahumara , or CCIT) in 1957 that included a forestry project intended to fund the CCIT and integrate native people into the economic mainstream. In coastal Michoacán, development fell to a private corporation known...

..., Mexican forests became what this book calls “political landscapes”: geographies made meaningful through the interaction of private interests, collective action and state power. The book investigates that process on the national level, with case studies from the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua and Meseta...

... known as the Coordinating Center of the Tarahumara ( Centro Coordinador de la Tarahumara , or CCIT) in 1957 that included a forestry project intended to fund the CCIT and integrate native people into the economic mainstream. In coastal Michoacán, development fell to a private corporation known...

... to forests inhabited by Rarámuri (Tarahumara) people. Mexican scientists eventually began to worry that the scale of logging might cause irreparable environmental damage. commodification railroads Porfirio Díaz Purépecha (Tarascans) Rarámuri (Tarahumara) ...

...-decade concessions that gave them direct access to forests inhabited by Rarámuri (Tarahumara) people. Mexican scientists eventually began to worry that the scale of logging might cause irreparable environmental damage. commodification railroads Porfirio Díaz Purépecha (Tarascans) Rarámuri...

... official policies favoring deforestation. In Michoacán, where avocado plantations began to replace forests, rural people mobilized and undermined state forestry. In Chihuahua, neoliberalism did so, though not before the World Bank proposed one final mega-project in the Sierra Tarahumara. By the 1990s...