Cindy Mcculligh

Sewer of Progress

Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"After almost twenty years of citizen demand for the cleanup of the Santiago River in Western Mexico, this book grapples with the question of why this river continues to be polluted by effluents of industrial origin"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780262545921
• ISBN-10: 0262545926
• Artikelnr.: 67713675

Autorenporträt

Cindy McCulligh is a professor researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction: From "Mexican Niagara" to River of Death 1
1 Industrialization and Environmental Regulation in Mexico 37
2 Chronicle of a Struggle: The Negation and the Terror 81
3 (Un)regulated Environments and the Santiago River 119
4 The Enemy at Home: Regulatory Capture and Wastewater Discharge 169
5 Corporate Sustainability: Myths and Realities 205
6 Conclusions: The Road Ahead 247
Appendix: Methodological Strategy 263
Notes 275
References 287
Index 321