Leticia Durand
Biographic Data
| ID | 197030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leticia Durand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leticia |
| FAMILY NAME | Durand |
| SIGNATURE | DURAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8119-0800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Listening to Sargasso beyond the Sargasso Sea
Biospheres reserves and social-ecological well-being
Biosphere reserves (BRs) have been effective in safeguarding biodiversity, yet their implementation has resulted in contentious outcomes for local communities. In this study, we examine the impact of a BR in southern Mexico on the social-ecological well-being (SEWB) of a peasant community. A total of 38 semi-structured and informal interviews were conducted with local residents and park rangers, and qualitative data collection and analysis method…
Exploraciones cosmopolíticas
Reseña del libro de María Isabel Martínez Ramírez y Johannes Neurath. Cosmopolítica y cosmohistoria. Una anti-síntesis (2021). Buenos Aires-Argentina: Sb Editorial, 192 pp
Trajectoire intellectuelle d’une political ecology « latino-américaine »
L’écologie politique latino-américaine est un cadre théorique pour penser les relations société-nature et la transition écologique qui a émergé au cours des 25 dernières années et représente aujourd’hui un véritable courant de référence dans le monde luso- hispanophone. Cet article présente la trajectoire et les ramifications de ce cadre théorique, et montre comment il s’est développé dans le sillon de la littérature anglophone de la political ec…
Monster plants
This article presents a story about a plant - Lacandonia schismatica - which subverted disciplinary traditions in botany and reconfigured its geopolitical orders of knowledge. To tell this story, we focus on Lacandonia's 'plantiness', Lesley Head and colleagues' (2012) concept to signify each kind of plant's unique biophysical characteristics, capacities, and potentialities, and through which they co-produce the world. We trace how L. schismatica…
El papel de la organización social local en el desarrollo del ecoturismo en México
Ecotourism, as a community development strategy, seeks to simultaneously achieve conservation and development, but its design does not usually consider the complexity of the local contexts where it is implemented. This study analyzes the role played by the configuration of the local and regional socio-political context in the development of two ecotourism initiatives in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Using qualitative tools, the study com…
Power, identity and biodiversity conservation in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I analyze how daily conservation discourse and practices create and recreate local identities through the reconfiguration of social relationships brought about by conservation encounters. The mobilization of identity has been a main strategy of the inhabitants of the Lacandon Community Zone and the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve for maintaining their access to natural resources and benefitting from conservation. In the Lacandon …
Manejo de recursos forestales no maderables y las políticas de simplificación
El uso de Recursos Forestales No Maderables (RFNM) puede crear oportunidades de desarrollo para poblaciones locales; pero ello requiere de determinadas condiciones. En México, el uso de RFNM considerados oficialmente como “amenazados” es regulado por Unidades de Manejo para la Conservación de la Vida Silvestre (UMA), un instrumento que busca conciliar la conservación biológica con desarrollo local. Sus resultados varían en función de las caracter…
Introduction
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 …
Inclusion and Exclusion in Participation Strategies in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
Since the 1970s, community participation has become central in biodiversity conservation initiatives, mainly as a strategy for integrating the needs and interests of the populations living in and around protected areas (PAs), and to enhance local social development. Nevertheless, institutionalised participation is usually conceived as a means to attain the goals of conservation initiatives. Although important efforts have been made to construct p…
Biodiversity conservation discourses. A case study on scientists and government authorities in Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
The Local Perception of Tropical Deforestation and its Relation to Conservation Policies in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Contemporary Colonization and Deforestation in the Mexican Tropics. The Case of Sierra Santa Marta
The present paper describe the recent colonization of Sierra Santa Marta, Mexico, and evaluate the relationship between colonization and deforestation. Ten communities in the area were visited for this purpose, it was found out that colonization, the evolution of productive systems and the use of biological resources in the new settlements, were related to nations! social and economical policies which did not consider environmental factor?. Tropi…
The Local Perception of Tropical Deforestation and its Relation to Conservation Policies in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
El papel de la organización social local en el desarrollo del ecoturismo en México
Ecotourism, as a community development strategy, seeks to simultaneously achieve conservation and development, but its design does not usually consider the complexity of the local contexts where it is implemented. This study analyzes the role played by the configuration of the local and regional socio-political context in the development of two ecotourism initiatives in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Using qualitative tools, the study com…
Power, identity and biodiversity conservation in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I analyze how daily conservation discourse and practices create and recreate local identities through the reconfiguration of social relationships brought about by conservation encounters. The mobilization of identity has been a main strategy of the inhabitants of the Lacandon Community Zone and the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve for maintaining their access to natural resources and benefitting from conservation. In the Lacandon …
Biodiversity conservation discourses. A case study on scientists and government authorities in Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Monster plants
This article presents a story about a plant - Lacandonia schismatica - which subverted disciplinary traditions in botany and reconfigured its geopolitical orders of knowledge. To tell this story, we focus on Lacandonia's 'plantiness', Lesley Head and colleagues' (2012) concept to signify each kind of plant's unique biophysical characteristics, capacities, and potentialities, and through which they co-produce the world. We trace how L. schismatica…
Contemporary Colonization and Deforestation in the Mexican Tropics. The Case of Sierra Santa Marta
The present paper describe the recent colonization of Sierra Santa Marta, Mexico, and evaluate the relationship between colonization and deforestation. Ten communities in the area were visited for this purpose, it was found out that colonization, the evolution of productive systems and the use of biological resources in the new settlements, were related to nations! social and economical policies which did not consider environmental factor?. Tropi…
The Local Perception of Tropical Deforestation and its Relation to Conservation Policies in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Biodiversity conservation discourses. A case study on scientists and government authorities in Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Introduction
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 …
Inclusion and Exclusion in Participation Strategies in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
Since the 1970s, community participation has become central in biodiversity conservation initiatives, mainly as a strategy for integrating the needs and interests of the populations living in and around protected areas (PAs), and to enhance local social development. Nevertheless, institutionalised participation is usually conceived as a means to attain the goals of conservation initiatives. Although important efforts have been made to construct p…
Manejo de recursos forestales no maderables y las políticas de simplificación
El uso de Recursos Forestales No Maderables (RFNM) puede crear oportunidades de desarrollo para poblaciones locales; pero ello requiere de determinadas condiciones. En México, el uso de RFNM considerados oficialmente como “amenazados” es regulado por Unidades de Manejo para la Conservación de la Vida Silvestre (UMA), un instrumento que busca conciliar la conservación biológica con desarrollo local. Sus resultados varían en función de las caracter…
Power, identity and biodiversity conservation in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I analyze how daily conservation discourse and practices create and recreate local identities through the reconfiguration of social relationships brought about by conservation encounters. The mobilization of identity has been a main strategy of the inhabitants of the Lacandon Community Zone and the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve for maintaining their access to natural resources and benefitting from conservation. In the Lacandon …
El papel de la organización social local en el desarrollo del ecoturismo en México
Ecotourism, as a community development strategy, seeks to simultaneously achieve conservation and development, but its design does not usually consider the complexity of the local contexts where it is implemented. This study analyzes the role played by the configuration of the local and regional socio-political context in the development of two ecotourism initiatives in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Using qualitative tools, the study com…
Exploraciones cosmopolíticas
Reseña del libro de María Isabel Martínez Ramírez y Johannes Neurath. Cosmopolítica y cosmohistoria. Una anti-síntesis (2021). Buenos Aires-Argentina: Sb Editorial, 192 pp
Trajectoire intellectuelle d’une political ecology « latino-américaine »
L’écologie politique latino-américaine est un cadre théorique pour penser les relations société-nature et la transition écologique qui a émergé au cours des 25 dernières années et représente aujourd’hui un véritable courant de référence dans le monde luso- hispanophone. Cet article présente la trajectoire et les ramifications de ce cadre théorique, et montre comment il s’est développé dans le sillon de la littérature anglophone de la political ec…
Monster plants
This article presents a story about a plant - Lacandonia schismatica - which subverted disciplinary traditions in botany and reconfigured its geopolitical orders of knowledge. To tell this story, we focus on Lacandonia's 'plantiness', Lesley Head and colleagues' (2012) concept to signify each kind of plant's unique biophysical characteristics, capacities, and potentialities, and through which they co-produce the world. We trace how L. schismatica…
Biospheres reserves and social-ecological well-being
Biosphere reserves (BRs) have been effective in safeguarding biodiversity, yet their implementation has resulted in contentious outcomes for local communities. In this study, we examine the impact of a BR in southern Mexico on the social-ecological well-being (SEWB) of a peasant community. A total of 38 semi-structured and informal interviews were conducted with local residents and park rangers, and qualitative data collection and analysis method…
Listening to Sargasso beyond the Sargasso Sea
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works)