@book{marriage after migration: an ethnography of money, romance, and gender in globalizing mexico_2020, url={https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marriage-after-migration-9780190056018?cc=us&lang=en&}, journal={Oxford University Press}, year={2020} } @article{siegelman_haenn_basurto_2019, title={“Lies build trust”: Social capital, masculinity, and community-based resource management in a Mexican fishery}, volume={123}, ISSN={0305-750X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.031}, DOI={10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.031}, abstractNote={This paper relates how fishermen in San Evaristo on Mexico’s Baja peninsula employ fabrications to strengthen bonds of trust and navigate the complexities of common pool resource extraction. We argue this trickery complicates notions of social capital in community-based natural resource management, which emphasize communitarianism in the form of trust. Trust, defined as a mutual dependability often rooted in honesty, reliable information, or shared expectations, has long been recognized as essential to common pool resource management. Despite this, research that takes a critical approach to social capital places attention on the activities that foster social networks and their norms by arguing that social capital is a process. A critical approach illuminates San Evaristeño practices of lying and joking across social settings and contextualizes these practices within cultural values of harmony. As San Evaristeños assert somewhat paradoxically, for them “lies build trust.” Importantly, a critical approach to this case study forces consideration of gender, an overlooked topic in social capital research. San Evaristeña women are excluded from the verbal jousting through which men maintain ties supporting their primacy in fishery management. Both men’s joke-telling and San Evaristeños’ aversion to conflict have implications for conservation outcomes. As a result, we use these findings to help explain local resistance to outsiders and external management strategies including land trusts, fishing cooperatives, and marine protected areas.}, journal={World Development}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Siegelman, Ben and Haenn, Nora and Basurto, Xavier}, year={2019}, month={Nov}, pages={104601} } @inbook{schmook_haenn_radel_navarro-olmedo_2018, place={New York}, title={Empowering Women?: Conditional Cash Transfers and the Patriarchal State in Calakmul, Mexico}, booktitle={Money from the government in Latin America: social cash transfer policies and rural lives}, publisher={Routledge Press}, author={Schmook, B. and Haenn, N. and Radel, C. and Navarro-Olmedo, S.}, editor={Balen, E. and Fotta, M.Editors}, year={2018}, pages={97–113} } @article{haenn_2018, title={Mexican anti-poverty program targeting poor women may help men most, study says./El programa Mexicana que intenta reducir la pobreza de mujeres beneficia más a sus maridos}, url={https://theconversation.com/mexican-anti-poverty-program-targeting-poor-women-may-help-men-most-study-finds-97917}, journal={The Conversation}, author={Haenn, Nora}, year={2018}, month={Jul} } @article{haenn_2018, edition={online and in print}, title={North Carolina’s ties to Mexico are strong. Let’s make them stronger}, url={https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article214253494.html}, journal={News and Observer}, author={Haenn, Nora}, year={2018}, month={Jul} } @article{radel_schmook_haenn_green_2017, title={The Gender Dynamics of Conditional Cash Transfers and Smallholder Farming in Calakmul, Mexico}, volume={65}, ISSN={0277-5395}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.06.004}, DOI={10.1016/j.wsif.2016.06.004}, abstractNote={We explore how Oportunidades, Mexico's anti-poverty conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, impacts production and gender dynamics in the smallholder agricultural sector. A 2010 household survey in one southeastern municipality (Calakmul) captured data on Oportunidades receipt, land use and yields, as well as gendered patterns of asset control, decision-making, labor, and income receipt. Our analysis suggests that households with Oportunidades are more likely to engage in semi-subsistence maize cultivation and on average harvest more maize. Thus Oportunidades appears to support semi-subsistence production. We also document persistent gender gaps in land control, decision-making, labor, and income receipt. Nonetheless, we find that households with Oportunidades have on average smaller gaps of particular kinds: women receiving Oportunidades are more likely to hold de jure land rights and to share in income receipt from four main crops. These effects of Oportunidades on gendered smallholder production dynamics are important ones in smallholder women's lives.}, number={Special issue: Latin American women’s farm land and communal forests}, journal={Women’s Studies International Forum}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Radel, C. and Schmook, B. and Haenn, N. and Green, L.}, year={2017}, pages={17–27} } @article{haenn_2016, title={The Middle-Class Conservationist: Social Dramas, and Blurred Identity Boundaries and Their Environmental Consequences in Mexican Conservation}, volume={57}, DOI={10.1086/685728}, abstractNote={This paper argues that conservation and society research employs a social drama framework that presumes, rather than questions, identity boundaries between conservation actors. This framework describes three competing groups: local residents, government elites, and international actors. The paper counters this narrative by relating the history of conservationists’ careers in southern Mexico, where the boundaries between middle-class conservationists and noncapitalist peasants are quite porous. Drawing on theories of identity formation and self-presentation, the paper indicates how conservation structures insist on the repudiation of similarities between conservation employees and subject populations. Cultural sharing between conservationists and peasants takes place over time at offstage and backstage sites. As such, these processes are less visible in social drama narratives focused, synchronically, on disputes. The paper uses these findings to reconsider two central claims in conservation and society research, that is, conservation as an imposition of elite prerogatives and conservation’s support for capitalist exploitation of natural resources.}, number={2}, journal={Current Anthropology}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2016}, pages={197–218} } @article{navarro olmedo_haenn_schmook_radel_2016, title={The Legacy of Mexico’s Agrarian Counter-reforms: Reinforcing Social Hierarchies in Calakmul, Campeche}, volume={16}, ISSN={["1471-0366"]}, DOI={10.1111/joac.12095}, abstractNote={In this paper, we examine how Mexico's 1992 counter‐reforms reinforced social hierarchies between two ‘classes’ of residents within three ejidos in an agricultural frontier in Campeche. We carried out qualitative research with 94 ejidatarios, 92 pobladores and 13 government officials. Our research shows that the reforms cemented the second‐class status of pobladores, as their access to land, natural resources such as firewood and governmental subsidies is now even more contested. Ejidal residents have responded to these tensions by invoking various conceptions of citizenship to press for different forms of justice. Ejidatarios seek to enforce their legal prerogatives by advocating a tiered citizenship, inflected with aspects of ‘market citizenship’, in which pobladores have less access to resources and voice. Pobladores seek inclusion in the ejido via a cultural model of citizenship built around a ‘civil sociality’. Despite this generalization, both groups also selectively move between and combine these citizenship frameworks to advance their claims.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Agrarian Change}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Navarro Olmedo, S. and Haenn, N. and Schmook, B. and Radel, C.}, year={2016}, pages={145–167} } @article{haenn_schmook_martínez_calmé_2014, title={A Cultural Consensus Regarding the King Vulture?: Preliminary Findings and Their Application to Mexican Conservation}, volume={3}, number={1}, journal={Ethnobiology and Conservation}, author={Haenn, N. and Schmook, B. and Martínez, Y.Reyes and Calmé, S.}, year={2014}, pages={1–22} } @article{haenn_olson_martinez-reyes_durand_2014, title={Between Capitalism, the State, and the Grassroots: Mexico’s Contribution to a Global Conservation Debate}, volume={12}, ISSN={["0975-3133"]}, DOI={10.4103/0972-4923.138407}, abstractNote={This introduction situates Mexico in the research on conservation and society, illustrating some nuances and characteristics of the Mexican model of biodiversity conservation in relation to neoliberal economic development and state formation. The paper critiques the way neoliberalism has become a common framework to understand conservation's social practices. Drawing on the ethnographies collected in this special section, the paper considers the importance of state formation and disorganised neoliberalism as intertwined phenomena that explain conservation outcomes. This approach lends itself to the papers' ethnographic descriptions that demonstrate a particular Mexican form of conservation that sits alongside a globalised biodiversity conservation apparatus. The introduction presents some additional analytical interpretations: 1) conservation strategies rooted in profit-driven models are precarious; 2) empirical cases show the expansion of both state structures and capitalist markets via conservation; and 3) non-capitalist approaches to conservation merit greater consideration.}, number={2}, journal={Conservation and Society}, publisher={Medknow}, author={Haenn, N. and Olson, E. and Martinez-Reyes, J. and Durand, L.}, year={2014}, pages={111–119} } @article{haenn_schmook_martínez_calmé_2014, title={Improving Conservation Outcomes with Insights from Local Experts and Bureaucracies}, volume={28}, ISSN={["1523-1739"]}, DOI={10.1111/cobi.12265}, abstractNote={AbstractWe describe conservation built on local expertise such that it constitutes a hybrid form of traditional and bureaucratic knowledge. Researchers regularly ask how local knowledge might be applied to programs linked to protected areas. By examining the production of conservation knowledge in southern Mexico, we assert local expertise is already central to conservation. However, bureaucratic norms and social identity differences between lay experts and conservation practitioners prevent the public valuing of traditional knowledge. We make this point by contrasting 2 examples. The first is a master's thesis survey of local experts regarding the biology of the King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) in which data collection took place in communities adjacent to the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. The second is a workshop sponsored by the same reserve that instructed farmers on how to monitor endangered species, including the King Vulture. In both examples, conservation knowledge would not have existed without traditional knowledge. In both examples, this traditional knowledge is absent from scientific reporting. On the basis of these findings, we suggest conservation outcomes may be improved by recognizing the knowledge contributions local experts already make to conservation programming.Mejorando los Resultados de la Conservación con la Percepción de Expertos y Burócratas Locales Haenn et al.}, number={4}, journal={Conservation Biology}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Haenn, N. and Schmook, B. and Martínez, Y.Reyes and Calmé, S.}, year={2014}, pages={951–958} } @article{haenn_2013, edition={online}, title={When Mutant Mosquitos Attack}, journal={New York Times Magazine}, author={Haenn, Nora}, year={2013}, month={Feb} } @article{mccoy_haenn_2013, title={‘Gentlemen-Type Rules’ and ‘Back Room Deals’ in Public Participation: Natural Resource Management and a Fractured State in North Carolina}, volume={20}, journal={Journal of Political Ecology}, author={McCoy, R. and Haenn, N.}, year={2013}, pages={444–459} } @article{haenn_2012, title={Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests}, volume={40}, ISSN={["0300-7839"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10745-012-9507-2}, number={5}, journal={HUMAN ECOLOGY}, publisher={Springer Nature}, author={Haenn, Nora}, year={2012}, month={Oct}, pages={803–805} } @inbook{haenn_2011, place={New York}, title={Who’s Got the Money Now?: Conservation-Development Meets the Nueva Ruralidad in Southern Mexico}, booktitle={Environmental Anthropology Today}, publisher={Routledge Press}, author={Haenn, N.}, editor={Kopnina, H. and Shoreman, E.Editors}, year={2011}, pages={215–233} } @inbook{haenn_2010, place={Northampton, MA}, title={A Sustaining Conservation for Mexico?}, booktitle={International Handbook of Environmental Sociology}, publisher={Edward Elgar Publishing}, author={Haenn, N.}, editor={Woodgate, G. and Redclift, M.Editors}, year={2010}, pages={408–426} } @article{shoreman_haenn_2009, title={Regulation, Conservation, and Collaboration: Ecological Anthropology in the Mississippi Delta}, volume={37}, ISSN={["1572-9915"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10745-009-9218-5}, number={1}, journal={Human Ecology}, publisher={Springer Nature}, author={Shoreman, E. and Haenn, N.}, year={2009}, pages={95–107} } @article{haenn_casagrande_2007, title={Citizens, Experts, and Anthropologists: Finding Paths in Environmental Policy}, volume={66}, DOI={10.17730/humo.66.2.82400531t1533651}, abstractNote={The papers in this special section address anthropology's relationship to the creation and implementation of environmental policy. The authors describe anthropologists attempting to flatten hierarchical decision making by acting as cultural brokers who must navigate public advocacy, multidisciplinary research and collaborations with environmental managers, natural resource exploiters, or government agencies. The essay describes how an anthropology that builds trust via holistic ethnography, ethics, and credibility contributes to policy success and allows for policy collaboration to enhance anthropology as a discipline. Involving students in policy will help them build skills and confidence necessary to engage policy throughout their careers.}, number={2}, journal={Human Organization}, publisher={Society for Applied Anthropology}, author={Haenn, N. and Casagrande, D.}, year={2007}, pages={99–102} } @article{haenn_casagrande_2007, title={Special Section: Anthropology and Environmental Policy}, volume={66}, number={2}, journal={Human Organization}, year={2007} } @book{haenn_2005, place={Tucson}, title={Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation, and the State in Mexico}, publisher={University of Arizona Press}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2005} } @article{haenn_2004, title={New Rural Poverty: The Tangled Web of Environmental Protection and Economic Aid in Southern Mexico}, volume={8}, DOI={10.1300/j134v08n04_06}, abstractNote={SUMMARY Scholars, especially those located in Latin America, argue for a new rurality, one that entails changed rural-urban relations and decreasing reliance by rural residents on small-scale farming. Based on an examination of the impacts of three subsidy programs aimed at residents living near Mexico's Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, I suggest these changes reinforce a continued rural poverty. The programs include a series of “conservation-development” initiatives whose architects hoped would decrease the pressure slash-and-burn farmers placed on area forests. In addition, residents of this area participated in agricultural and school subsidies. I compare the relative impact of all these programs on household incomes and consider both the opportunities for social capital these programs represented and their role in the purported “new rurality.”}, number={4}, journal={Journal on Poverty}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2004}, pages={97–117} } @inbook{haenn_2004, place={New York}, title={New Rural Poverty: The Tangled Web of Environmental Protection and Economic Aid in Southern Mexico}, booktitle={Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American–U.S. Borderlands: Implications of U.S. Interventions}, publisher={Haworth Press}, author={Haenn, N.}, editor={Kilty, K. and Segal, E.Editors}, year={2004}, pages={97–117} } @article{haenn_2006, title={The Changing and Enduring Ejido: A State and Regional Examination of Mexico’s Land Tenure Counter-reforms}, volume={23}, DOI={10.1016/j.landusepol.2004.07.002}, abstractNote={Research on the counter-reforms to Article 27 of the Mexican constitution has been challenged to bridge micro- and macro-level data and illuminate a general refusal to privatize land. Here, a layered approach poses a few possible answers. Drawing on data for the state of Campeche, I relate how ejido members effectively expanded their landholdings via the counter-reforms. Drawing on data for the municipality of Calakmul in Campeche, including a survey of nine ejido's, I discuss how the combined actions of federal policies, local administrators, and ejido members reinforced the ejido's de facto mixed common and private property tenures. In all, I show that, despite global pressures toward privatized land, Mexican policy-makers and ejido members alike are ambivalent regarding a privatized ejido. Nonetheless, state policies have delimited the ejido sector, if not in terrain, in the number of people with land rights in any given ejido.}, number={2}, journal={Land Use Policy}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2006}, pages={136–146} } @inbook{haenn_2003, place={New York}, title={Risking Environmental Justice: Culture, Conservation, and Governance at Calakmul, Mexico}, booktitle={Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America}, publisher={Routledge Press}, author={Haenn, N.}, editor={Eckstein, S. and Wickham-Crawley, T.Editors}, year={2003}, pages={81–101} } @article{haenn_2002, title={Commentary on S. Atran et al., "Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons"}, volume={43}, number={3}, journal={Current Anthropology}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2002}, pages={442–443} } @article{haenn_2002, title={Nature Regimes in Southern Mexico: A History of Power and Environment}, volume={41}, DOI={10.2307/4153018}, abstractNote={This article explores the popularized history of a state-peasant conservation alliance in southern Mexico. Following poststructural calls, it treats this history as a locally constructed "regime of nature," a story that condenses and attempts to direct the intersection of history, cultural mediation, and ecology. Using ethnographic and archival material, it examines what factors made capitalist interventions aimed at exploiting local forests possible. It compares former regimes with structures and discourses linked to conservation to comment on the relationship between protected areas and state formation. Through this exploration, I suggest compatibilities between poststructural and political-economy approaches to political ecology. (Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, ejido, violence, globalization, migration, frontier colonization) ********** Research on agricultural frontiers emphasizes national policies that frame colonization as well as the local economies and ecologies shaping peasant land use. At Calakmul, located near Guatemala and Belize on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, these concerns coincide with a popularized local history. (2) In both cases, a series of capitalist interventions opens the way for colonization and farmers' engagement with local forests. While the novelty of today's human-environment interactions increasingly receives scrutiny (Fairhead and Leach 1996), new settlement areas challenge assessments of local history. These sites commonly present scant textual documentation. Often, a "frontier" designation provides a blank slate on which academics, conservationists, colonists, and state agents alike shape a region in various images. Within this shaping, researchers now question the way depictions of wilderness accompany frontier designations and influence social relations as much as they presume certain human-environment interactions (Alonso 1995; Li 1999). Where there are protected areas, such as Calakmul, a historical gloss and wilderness beliefs aid a potent push to naturalize new governing practices and undermine environmental ideas and actions that counter state intentions. Following poststructural calls, this article explores Calakmul's popularized history as a locally constructed "regime of nature," a story that condenses and attempts to direct the intersection of history, cultural mediation, and ecology (Escobar 1999). Escobar (1999:4) encourages researchers to consider "the manifold practices through which the biophysical has been incorporated into history--more accurately, in which the biophysical and the historical are implicated with each other." Transforming this point into a question, what made certain resource regimes in Calakmul both thinkable and politically possible at different times? Distinct from Escobar, I consider localized depictions of nature regimes and focus on a version of Calakmul's history generated when this area became home to the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico's largest tropical protected area. In 1995, I recorded this history as related by peasant or campesino leaders and state agents, including the Reserve Director and his staff. These people described Calakmul as a place that, after decades of a forest-based economy, became home to peasants who failed to value forest ecologies. Frontier families established settlements by battling an inhospitable ecology, exploitation by timber companies, and government neglect. Calakmul's people were infuriated by the Reserve's 1989 declaration, as these policies reneged on state promises for land distribution. Tensions subsided in the 1990s when Mexico's ruling PRI party (the Institutional Revolutionary Party) used conservation-development aid to buy out campesino opposition. By 1996, the conquest of Calakmul's people and environment neared completion as Reserve staff and campesino leaders promoted the creation of a new municipio or county comprised of the Reserve and adjacent lands. …}, number={1}, journal={Ethnology}, publisher={JSTOR}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2002}, pages={1–26} } @article{haenn_2000, title={Renovating Ecology}, volume={27}, DOI={10.1525/ae.2000.27.3.736}, abstractNote={Transforming the Indonesian Uplands. Tania Murray Li. ed. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. xxiv. 319 pp., illustrations, maps, index.Cultural Memory and Biodiversity. Virginia D. Nazarea. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xiv+189 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index.Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. Virginia D. Nazarea. ed. Tucson. University of Arizona Press, 1998. xii. 299 pp., index.Green Place,. Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. David Lee Schoenbrun. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. xiv. 301 pp., maps, figures, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index.}, number={3}, journal={American Ethnologist}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2000}, pages={736–745} } @book{haenn_2000, place={Arlington, Virginia, USA}, series={América Verde Working Papers}, title={‘Biodiversity Is Diversity in Use’: Community-Based Conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve [2001, Spanish lang. version published as “Biodiversidad es diversidad en uso”: Conservación basada en la communidad en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Calakmul]}, institution={The Nature Conservancy}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={2000}, collection={América Verde Working Papers} } @article{haenn_1999, title={Community Formation in Frontier Mexico: Accepting and Rejecting Migrants}, volume={58}, DOI={10.17730/humo.58.1.817173q815513638}, abstractNote={Through a comparison of two communities, this paper addresses village formation in frontier Campeche, Mexico. Mexico's village political unit, the ejido, allows farmers flexibility in deciding who may take up residence in their communities. The paper analyzes how established farmers employ ideas of ethnicity, family, and expectations of social strife to assess the long-term compatibility of newcomers. The paper further examines the role of economic stratification, village factionalism, and development programs in structuring acceptance into a village. The findings challenge prevalent economic explanations for migration and point to the need for research into the interaction of economic and political factors in intrarural migration.}, number={1}, journal={Human Organization}, publisher={Society for Applied Anthropology}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={1999}, pages={36–43} } @article{haenn_1999, title={The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation}, volume={27}, number={3}, journal={Human Ecology}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={1999}, pages={477–491} } @article{haenn_1999, title={Working Forests: Conservation and Conflict in Tropical Mexico}, volume={1}, url={http://www.udel.edu/LASP/vol1Haenn.html}, number={1}, journal={Delaware Review of Latin American Studies}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={1999} } @article{haenn_1994, title={A New Tourist, a New Environment: Can Ecotourism Deliver?}, volume={31}, number={2}, journal={Trends}, author={Haenn, N.}, year={1994}, pages={28–30} }