Transforming Indigenous Relations with Nature: Ecological Discourses, Eco-Tourism, and Gender in Mexico

土著社区特别受到关于环境退化和气候变化的全球讨论的影响。虽然他们被视为经济不可持续的污染者，但他们也被描绘成与自然特别亲近或相关。然而，这些浪漫化的表现越来越多地被土著行为者用来促进他们的经济。以社区为基础的生态旅游项目就是这种情况，这些项目的框架是关于环境退化和环境保护的全球化论述。该项目调查了这些过程在墨西哥瓦哈卡的社会后果，该州在财政和后勤上支持土著社区的社区生态旅游项目。本研究探讨了创造性的挪用和翻译的生态话语如何影响对自然的看法，并特别强调性别的具体层面。通过应用性别知情的角度来看，这项研究产生了新的见解，在自然为基础，在土著环境中的文化转型过程，并作出了重大贡献的话语和实践系统，自然关系，旅游和挪用的概念的理论分析。

Indigenous communities are particularly affected by global discourses on environmental degradation and climate change. While they are seen as polluters with non-sustainable economies, they are also portrayed as particularly close or related to nature. These romanticised representations, however, are increasingly used by indigenous actors to advance their economies. This is the case in community based ecotourism projects, which are framed by globalised discourses on environmental degradation and environmental protection. This project investigates the social consequences of these processes in Oaxaca, Mexico, where the state supports community based ecotourism projects in indigenous communities both financially and logistically. This study scrutinises how creative appropriation and translation of ecological discourses impacts on perceptions of nature, and places particular emphasis on gender specific dimensions. By applying a gender informed perspective, this study generates new insights in nature based, cultural transformations processes in indigenous contexts and makes a substantial contribution to the theoretical analysis of discourse and practice systems, nature relations, tourism and concepts of appropriation.