LAURIE KROSHUS MEDINA is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She theorizes contemporary forms of governance through the lens of ethnographic field research in Belize. Her current project involves three broad areas of focus. She explores the production and implementation of indigenous rights to lands and territories, both internationally and in Belize, as Maya communities seek to secure their tenure over lands via litigation before local and international judicial bodies, negotiations with the Belizean state, and the strengthening of Maya customary tenure practices. She also explores neoliberal forms of environmental governance, in which non-state actors such as NGOs or markets for protected nature govern both forests and human activity. Additionally, she interrogates the performative nature of states, sovereignties, and territories in the context of a claim by the neighboring state of Guatemala to Belizean territory.