Communal forests, political spaces: Territorial competition between common property institutions and the state in Guatemala

Space and Polity

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 271-287

  Reddy, Sunita P ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FOREST; PROPERTY RIGHTS; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

GUATEMALA;

EID: 0036926691     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1356257022000031977     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. AZHAR, R. (1993) Commons, regulation, and rent-seeking behavior: the dilemma of Pakistan's Guzara forests, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 42(1), pp. 115-129.
2. BARDHAN, P. (1993) Symposium on management of local commons, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7(4), pp. 87-92.
3. BERKES, F., FEENY, D. and ACHESON, J. (1989) The benefits of the commons, Nature, 340, pp. 91-93.
4. BLAIKIE, P. and BROOKFIELD, H. (Eds) (1987) Land Degradation and Society, London: Methuen.
5. BRADLEY, T., BASTERRECHEA, M., VILLAGRAN, E. and CASTANEDA, L. H. (1990) Guatemala Natural Resource Policy Inventory. Guatemala City: USAID/ROCAP.
6. BROMLEY, D. (Ed.) (1992) Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice, and Policy, San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies.
7. BRYANT, R. (1997) Third World Political Ecology. New York: Routledge.
8. BURAWOY, M. (1991) Extended case method, in: M. BURAWOY (Ed.) Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis, pp. 271-287. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
9. CASTELLON, M. (1992) Communal forest preservation in Totonicapán, Guatemala, MSc thesis, University of Wisconsinn-Madison.
10. COX, K. (1988) Locality and community in the politics of local economic development, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 78, pp. 307-325.
11. COX, K. and MAIR, A. (1991) From localised social structures to localities as agents, Environment and Planning A, 23, pp. 197-213.
12. DIX, M. (1977) Informe Breve Sobre Control de Dentroctonus y Sus Ataques en Totonicapan. Centro de Estudios de Poblacion, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City.
13. DOSAL, P. (1990) The political economy of industrialization in revolutionary Guatemala 1944-1954, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Carribean Studies, 5, pp. 17-36.
14. DRIVER, F. (1991) Political geography and state formation: disputed territory, Progress in Human Geography, 15(3), pp. 268-280.
15. EMEL, J. and ROBERTS, R. (1995) Institutional form and environmental change: the case of groundwater development on the Southern High Plains, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85, pp. 686-695.
16. EPOCA (ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT ON CENTRAL AMERICA (1990) Guatemala: a political ecology. Green Paper No. 5, EPOCA, San Francisco, CA.
17. ESCOBAR, A. (1984) Discourse and power in development: Michel Foucault and the relevance of his work to the third world, Alternatives, 10, pp. 377-400.
18. ESCOBAR, A. (1995) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
19. ESCOBAR, A. (1996) Constructing nature: elements for a poststructural political ecology, in: R. PEET and M. WATTS (Eds) Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, pp. 46-68. New York: Routledge.
20. FAFCHAMPS, M. and HELMS, B. (1996) Local demand, investment multipliers, and industrialization: theory and application to the Guatemalan highlands, Journal of Development Economics, 49, pp. 61-92.
21. FEENY, D., BERKES, F., MCCAY, B. J. and ACHESON, J. M. (1990) The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later, Human Ecology, 18(1), pp. 1-19.
22. FORTMANN, L. (1985) The tree tenure factor in agroforestry with particular reference to Africa, Agroforestry Systems, 2(4), pp. 229-251.
23. FORTMANN, L. (1995) Talking claims: discursive strategies in contesting property, World Development 23, pp. 1053-1063.
24. GOLDIN, L. (1996) Economic mobility strategies among Guatemalan peasants: prospects and limits of nontraditional vegetable cash crops, Human Organization, 55, pp. 99-107.
25. GRINDLE, M. (1986) State and Countryside: Development Policy and Agrarian Politics in Latin America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
26. HANDY, J. (1988) National policy, agrarian reform, and the corporate community during the Guatemalan revolution, 1944-1954, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 30, pp. 698-724.
27. HANDY, J. (1994) Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala 1944-54. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
28. HARDIN, G. (1968) The tragedy of the commons, Science, 162, pp. 1243-1248.
29. HARDING, S. (1991) Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
30. HECHT, S., ANDERSON, A. B. and MAY, P. (1988) The subsidy from nature: shifting cultivation, successional palm forests, and rural development, Human Organization, 47(1), pp. 25-35.
31. IMMINK, M. and ALARCON, J. (1993) Household income, food availability and commercial crop production by smallholder farmers in the western highlands of Guatemala, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 41, pp. 319-342.
32. IRVINE, C. (1993) Gender, Cash Cropping and Land Purchase Programs in Guatemala. Madison, WI: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
33. JONAS, S. (1991) The Battle for Guatemala. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
34. KATZ, G. (1995) Gender and trade within the household: observations from rural Guatemala, World Development, 23, pp. 327-342.
35. LOVELL, G. (1994) The century after independence: land and life in Guatemala 1821-1920. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Carribean Studies, 37/38, pp. 243-260.
36. MANN, M. (1984) The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms and results, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 25, pp. 185-213.
37. MANN, M. (1986) The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press.
38. MAY, P. (1986) A Modern Tragedy of the Non-commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
39. MCCREERY, D. (1990) State power, indigenous communities and land in nineteenth-century Guatemala, 1820-1920, in: C. SMITH (Ed.) Guatemala Indians and the State, 1540-1988, pp. 96-115. Austin TX: University of Texas Press.
40. MCCREERY, D. (1994) Rural Guatemala 1760-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
41. MINISTERIO de AGRICULTURA, GANADERIA Y ALIMENTACION (1990) Ley Forestal. Guatemala City: Government of Guatemala.
42. MOORE, B. (1966) The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
43. MOORE, D. (1993) Contesting terrain in Zimabwe's eastern highlands: political ecology, ethnography, and peasant resource struggles, Economic Geography, 69(4), pp. 380-401.
44. OLSON, M. (1965) The Logic of Collective Action, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
45. OSTROM, E. (1990) Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
46. OSTROM, E. (1992) The rudiments of a theory of the origins, survival and performance of common property institutions, in: D. BROMLEY (Ed.) Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice and Policy, pp. 293-319. San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies.
47. PAINTER, M. and DURHAM, W. (Eds) (1995) The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
48. PELUSO, N. (1992) Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
49. PELUSO, N. (1995) Whose woods are these? Counter-mapping forest territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Antipode, 27, pp. 383-406.
50. PELUSO, N. and POFFENBERGER, M. (1989) Social forestry in Java: reorienting management systems, Human Organization, 48(4) pp. 333-344.
51. PETERSEN, K. (1992) Zones of exploitation: Korean investment in Guatemala, Multinational Monitor, 13, pp. 30-35.
52. PRIMACK, R., BRAY, D., GALLETTI, H. and PONCIANO, I. (Eds) (1998) Timber, Tourists and Temples: Conservation and Development in the Maya Forests of Belize, Guatemala and Mexico. Washington, DC: Island Press.
53. RICHARDS, M. (1997) Common property resource institutions and forest management in Latin America, Development and Change, 28(1), pp. 95-117.
54. ROCHELEAU, D. (1988) Women, trees and tenure, in: L. FORTMANN and J. BRUCE (Eds) Whose Trees? Proprietary Dimensions of Forestry, pp. 254-272. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
55. ROCHELEAU, D. and ROSS, L. (1995) Trees as tools, trees as text: struggles over resources in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic, Antipode, 27, pp. 407-428.
56. STEINBERG, P. and BENJAMIN, P. (1995) Environment, development, crisis, and crusade: Ukambani, Kenya, 1890-1990, World Development, 23(6) pp. 1037-1051.
57. ROCHELEAU, D., THOMAS-SLAYTER, B. and WANGARI, E. (1996) Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. New York: Routledge.
58. RUNGE, C. E. (1986) Common property and collective action in economic development, in: Proceedings of the Conference on Common Property Resource Management, pp. 31-62, Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
59. SACK, R. (1986) Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History. New York: Cambridge University Press.
60. SADER, S. (1994) Forest change estimates for the northern Peten region of Guatemala 1986-1990, Human Ecology, 22(2), pp. 317-332.
61. SAN JOSE LA ARADA (1996) Plan de manejo forestal 1996-2000. Guatemala: Municipalidad de San José La Arada.
62. SCHWARTZ, N. (1995) Colonization, development and deforestation in Peten, northern Guatemala, in: M. PAINTER and W. DURHAM (Eds) The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America: Linking Levels of Analysis, ch. 3. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
63. SCHWEIGERT, T. (1993) Commercial sector wages and subsistence sector labor productivity in Guatemalan agriculture, World Development, 21, pp. 81-91.
64. SCOTT, J. (1985) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
65. SCOTT, J. (1998) Seeing Like A State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
66. SEABRIGHT, P. (1993) Managing local commons: theoretical issues in incentive design, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7(4), pp. 113-134.
67. SIMONIAN, L. (1995) Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
68. SKOCPOL, T. (1979) States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York: Cambridge University Press.
69. SMITH, C. (Ed.) (1990) Guatemala Indians and the State: 1540-1988. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
70. SOJA, E. (1989) Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. New York: Verso.
71. STEIN, S. and STEIN, B. (1970) The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
72. UTTING, P. (1993) Trees, People and Power: Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
73. VANDERGEEST, P. (1996) Mapping nature: territorialization of forest rights in Thailand, Society and Natural Resources, 9, pp. 159-175.
74. VANDERGEEST, P and PELUSO, N. (1995) Territorialization and state power in Thailand, Theory and Society, 24, pp. 385-426.
75. VEBLEN, T. (1976) The Ecological, Cultural, and Historical Bases of Forest Preservation in Totonicapán, Guatemala. PhD thesis, University of California-Berkeley.
76. VEBLEN, T. (1978) Forest preservation in the western highlands of Guatemala, Geographical Review, 68(4), pp. 417-434.
77. VILLAFUERTE VILLEDA, H. (1987) Estudio de crecimiento y rendimiento de Pinus oocarpa schiede, en San Jose La Arada, Chiquimula. MA thesis, Universidad de San Carlos De Guatemala.
78. WCMC (WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE) (1998) 1997 United Nations List of Protected Areas. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/UICN.