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oai:doaj.org/article:70da09f45afb41059d23ef2f824660ce

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10.18800/anthropologica.202101.001

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The state effects of public environmental policy on indigenous territories

Abstract

Based on the implementation of a forest conservation programme in native communities, I analyse how indigenous people understand the State as an environmental governing institution and how it is used as a user of public policy. The results of this ethnographic study suggest that the implementation of the economic incentives scheme for conservation creates a weak state connection as an environmental institution, but strengthens its role as a provider of development opportunities. With this programme, indigenous people have built alternative interpretations to forest conservation as an asset to attract future development opportunities and economic incentives such as rewards and tips. Finally, these deviations from the environmental awareness of the programme are understood by the strong administrative component of the accountability that communities make to the State. Indeed, the main state effect of the programme is the bureaucratisation of communities so that they can adapt to the state ideal of installing the audit culture.

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