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Book Review


Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. By Jake Kosek. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 380 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95, paper.)
      Jake Kosek's Understories is the first account of environmental history and ecological politics in New Mexico by an anthropologist looking through a Foucaultian lens. The influence of Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality inform this work throughout and is evident in Kosek's concern for understanding how "nature" and "human subjects" get constructed and deconstructed through environmental politics in what is more fundamentally for him a power struggle associated with on-going processes of racial, ethnic, and class conflict. This approach yields many useful insights that reside in Kosek's uncanny ability to bring thick ethnographic work into direct dialogue with theoretical concerns. . . .
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