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A Land Between Waters
Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants. A Land Between Waters explores the relationship between the people and the environment in Mexico. It heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study within the field of Mexican history. This volume brings together a dozen original works of environmental history by some of the foremost experts in Me...
El conflicto del agua
Esta obra presenta de forma inédita una investigación de largo aliento que busca recuperar la naturaleza social del agua, y destacar que es fundamental que la sociedad participe en el manejo y conservación de este recurso, con sus prácticas, ideas, significados, valores, potenciales e intereses que le confiere. Para ello los autores abordan, con un enfoque transversal y multidimensional, los múltiples y distintos conflictos que derivan del saneamiento, degradación y agotamiento de los ecosistemas acuáticos; de los daños y riesgos por las actividades extractivas y de aprovechamiento de las energías limpias, y del ineficaz o inexistente servicio de distribución del agua.
Matilde Landa
Matilde Landa Vaz (1904-1942) fue una de las principales figuras del movimiento de mujeres antifascistas de los años treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX. Formada en el entorno de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza y relacionada con intelectuales como Antonio Machado y Miguel Hernández, durante la Segunda República se afilió al PCE. Su protagonismo en la ayuda a los refugiados republicanos durante la Guerra Civil y en la articulación de la solidaridad con las condenadas a muerte (1939-1940) en la Cárcel de Ventas la convirtieron en una heroína entre las presas políticas de la inmediata posguerra, pero fueron, sobre todo, las pavorosas circunstancias que la condujeron a quitarse la vida e...
The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture
With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the pasthigher-yielding varieties, increased irrigation, inorganic fertilizers, pest damage reductioncan be counted on to come to the rescue. In fact, these solutions are now part of the problem. It i
ANTOLOGÍA SOBRE PEQUEÑO RIEGO, Vol. II. organizaciones autogestivas
El regadío tiene dos implicaciones, una parte técnica referida a la infraestructura y otra parte social referida a la organización para la administración de la infraestructura y a la contrucción misma. La existencia de infraestructura hidráulica no es una condición suficiente para que se pueda dar el regadío; la ausencia de la componente social/organizativa lleva al deterioro y destrucción de la obra hidráulica. El regadío tiene, entonces, ciertas implicaciones en la organización social.El alcance de estas implicaciones es motivo de debate teórico, no así el hecho de peculariedades organizativas que diferencian la agricultura de secano de la agricultura de riego. Tal y como se ...
La ciutat i les vides
Aquest volum homenatja al professor i investigador Joan Josep Pujadas i aplega divuit textos d’experts en antropologia, filologia, història. Es divideix en cinc parts: 1. Connexions biogràfiques i continuïtats acadèmiques, 2. Apunts per a una història de l’antropologia, 3. Antropologia urbana, 4. Epistemologia i mètode i 5. Mirades còmplices: identitat i alteritat.
Virtuous Waters
"Virtuous Waters is the first study of mineral waters and bathing in Mexico. It traces the evolving ideas about these waters, from European contact to the present, in order to shed new light on human-environment relations in the modern world. Our relation to water is among the most urgent of global issues, as increasing scarcity and pollution threaten food shortages, deteriorating public health, and the collapse of aquatic ecosystems. Drawing on ideas from political ecology, the author brings together an analysis of the shifts in the concept of water and a material history of environments, infrastructures, and bathing. The book analyzes a range of issues concerning complex "water cultures" that have formed around Mexican groundwaters over time and suggests that this understanding might also help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.
Protecting a Sacred Gift
Protecting a Sacred Gift makes a strong case that culture, gender, place, politics, and history shape Mexico's water resources policy, management strategies, and, ultimately, its physical and cultural landscapes. This edited volume presents diverse disciplinary approaches - anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science, sociology, and women's studies - all of which converge on theoretical and substantive interest in equity, public participation, and power associated with water. Indeed, the editors make the bold claim that water resources management must go far beyond technological innovation and economic efficiency to include 'visions of fairness in access, protection of the least privileged, engagement of stakeholders in all phases of distribution and maintenance, and a view of development that is sustainable.'
