Hanna Laako is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). She worked as a researcher in southern Mexico for ten years and currently leads a research project on Political Forests – the Maya Forest – financed by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology CONACYT and the Finnish Kone Foundation. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Helsinki, Finland.Edith Kauffer is a senior researcher at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico. She is the former coordinator of the researchers’ water network on the border between Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (RISAF) (2003–2016) and the co-coordinator of the Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion Consortium (RISC) working group on Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Introduction 1. From Borderlands to Forest Waterlands 2. Borderlands, the Maya, and the Building of the Maya Forest 3. Rethinking Transboundarities: Connectivities of Water and Conservation in the Maya Forest Waterlands 4. Maya Forest Waterlands as Waterless Transboundary River Basins for their Inhabitants 5. Political Trails in the Maya Forest: Go-betweens, Curating, and Places-in-knots in Three Biological Stations Afterword: The Maya Forest Waterlands, or there and back again

Hanna Laako is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). She worked as a researcher in southern Mexico for ten years and currently leads a research project on Political Forests – the Maya Forest – financed by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology CONACYT and the Finnish Kone Foundation. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Helsinki, Finland.Edith Kauffer is a senior researcher at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico. She is the former coordinator of the researchers’ water network on the border between Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (RISAF) (2003–2016) and the co-coordinator of the Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion Consortium (RISC) working group on Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Introduction 1. From Borderlands to Forest Waterlands 2. Borderlands, the Maya, and the Building of the Maya Forest 3. Rethinking Transboundarities: Connectivities of Water and Conservation in the Maya Forest Waterlands 4. Maya Forest Waterlands as Waterless Transboundary River Basins for their Inhabitants 5. Political Trails in the Maya Forest: Go-betweens, Curating, and Places-in-knots in Three Biological Stations Afterword: The Maya Forest Waterlands, or there and back again

Hanna Laako is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). She worked as a researcher in southern Mexico for ten years and currently leads a research project on Political Forests – the Maya Forest – financed by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology CONACYT and the Finnish Kone Foundation. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Helsinki, Finland.Edith Kauffer is a senior researcher at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico. She is the former coordinator of the researchers’ water network on the border between Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (RISAF) (2003–2016) and the co-coordinator of the Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion Consortium (RISC) working group on Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Introduction 1. From Borderlands to Forest Waterlands 2. Borderlands, the Maya, and the Building of the Maya Forest 3. Rethinking Transboundarities: Connectivities of Water and Conservation in the Maya Forest Waterlands 4. Maya Forest Waterlands as Waterless Transboundary River Basins for their Inhabitants 5. Political Trails in the Maya Forest: Go-betweens, Curating, and Places-in-knots in Three Biological Stations Afterword: The Maya Forest Waterlands, or there and back again