ABSTRACT
In this afterword, we conclude that the Maya Forest waterlands are a call to rethink many aspects. It is an invitation to rethink our socioenvironmental world beyond contemporary political borders and policy categories, that is, to explore what transboundarity means. It is an invitation to question remoteness and peripheries. It is also an invitation to critically examine science practices, unfolding in the building of the Maya and encompassing an eco-region and a biodiversity hotspot called the Maya Forest. Moreover, it is an invitation to explore the people of the Maya Forest waterlands, many of whom have settled there owing to previous governmental policies and businesses and yet are often neglected from the predominant Maya Forest narratives. These people have shared roots and trails; however, they are also divided by borders that cause tremendous discrepancies. In this way, the Maya Forest waterlands allow to capture broader and shapeshifting realities, which might have appeared as isolated cases otherwise.
