Excerpt:
"México Indigena raises hard questions about the relationship between the
[U.S.] military and the social sciences, and about the uses of cultural
knowledge. Communities in Oaxaca have complained that the project's members
never made clear that their research was funded by the US military, which
has raised concerns over what local activists have termed "geopiracy"—given
Demarest's thoughts on communal property, the idea that the collection of
GIS data in this region, collated with communal property holdings, could be
used to sustain a large-scale appropriation of land by the Mexican state
and apportionment to private interests—likely corporate interests—does not
seem so far-fetched."
http://savageminds.org/2009/06/05/human-terrain-in-oaxaca/
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