1st Edition
The Maya Forest Waterlands Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics, and Fluid Borders
Introduction 1. From Borderlands to Forest Waterlands 2. Borderlands, the Maya, and the Building of the Maya Forest 3. Rethinking Transboundarities: Connectivities of Water and Conservation in the Maya Forest Waterlands 4. Maya Forest Waterlands as Waterless Transboundary River Basins for their Inhabitants 5. Political Trails in the Maya Forest: Go-betweens, Curating, and Places-in-knots in Three Biological Stations Afterword: The Maya Forest Waterlands, or there and back again
Biography
Hanna Laako is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). She worked as a researcher in southern Mexico for ten years and currently leads a research project on Political Forests – the Maya Forest – financed by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology CONACYT and the Finnish Kone Foundation. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Edith Kauffer is a senior researcher at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico. She is the former coordinator of the researchers’ water network on the border between Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (RISAF) (2003–2016) and the co-coordinator of the Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion Consortium (RISC) working group on Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Aix-Marseille University, France.
