Wolfe Mikael D. Wolfe

Watering the Revolution (eBook, PDF)

An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers' distribution of water paradoxically undermined land distribution. In so doing, he highlights the intrinsic tension engineers faced between the urgent need for water conservation and the imperative for development during the contentious modernization of the Laguna's existing flood irrigation method into one regulated by high dams, concrete-lined canals, and motorized groundwater pumps. This tension generally resolved in favor of development, which unintentionally diminished and contaminated the water supply while deepening existing rural social inequalities by dividing people into water haves and have-nots, regardless of their access to land. By uncovering the varied motivations behind the Mexican government's decision to use invasive and damaging technologies despite knowing they were ecologically unsustainable, Wolfe tells a cautionary tale of the long-term consequences of short-sighted development policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373063
• Artikelnr.: 54785983

Autorenporträt

Mikael D. Wolfe is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Abbreviations  xi
Introduction  1
Part I. El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution)
1. River of Revolution  23
2. The Debate over Damming and Pumping El Agua de la Revolución  59
3. Distributing El Agua de la Revolución  95
Part II. The Second Agrarian Reform
4. Life and Work on the Revolutionary Dam Site and Ejidos  131
5. (Counter)Revolutionary Dam, Pumps, and Pesticides  163
6. Rehabilitating El Agua de la Revolución  191
Epilogue. The Legacies of Water Use and Abuse in Neoliberal Mexico  219
Appendixes  231
Notes  239
Bibliography  287
Index  305