A5103276539- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Cuban History and Society
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Census and Population Estimation
- Latin American history and culture
- History of Science and Medicine
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Latin American rural development
- Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Philippine History and Culture
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
- Water resources management and optimization
University of California, Santa Barbara
2011-2022
University of California System
2021
New School
2019
Walsh University
2016
Southern Cross University
2010
Ibero American University
2004-2007
Ibero-American University Puebla
2007
Statistics, generated by censuses, represent knowledge of society and environment used in the government complex hierarchical societies. In this article we discuss changing ways that censuses have reflected constructed corporeal cultural difference Mexico. We show shifts conceptualizing identifying racial ethnic groups Mexico are associated with larger social dynamics, our history these determinations is organized according to a series periods—colonial, mercantile; Porfirian; revolutionary;...
In January 1939 the anthropologist Manuel Gamio toured hinterlands of Mexican border town Matamoros, Tamaulipas, to examine progress federal government's Valle Bajo Rio Bravo agricultural development project and conduct an anthropological survey region. Over previous four years government President Lazaro Cardenas had invested huge amounts money in construction irrigation flood control works half delta region (known as Grande on Texas side border) effort create a cottonproducing zone that...
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities Interpretive Social Sciences, is result an LSE Research Infrastructure Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Integrity organised by Andrea E. Pia held at London School Economics on September 9, 2019.
In this thoroughly researched and conceptually innovative book, Miguel Antonio Levario describes twin processes of militarization racialization on the U.S.-Mexico border around El Paso Ciudad Juarez, against a backdrop modernization from 1893 to 1933. Borders are shaped by states, course, as much states defined borders. Levario, however, shows us that while state formation construction were promoted national regional government authorities, they carried out unevenly in daily life everyday...
Dairy farming is a physically demanding occupation, however, little known about the physical demands of dairy tasks, other than milking. The aim this study was to gain an understanding musculoskeletal discomfort experienced by farmers in relation their work. METHODS/PARTICIPANTS: A total 433 from two Australian states (NSW and Victoria) were invited participate mail-out survey (21% response rate, N=90), which covered discomfort, workload, task frequency muscular recovery time.Farmers...
During the last quarter century, focus of water management in many parts world has turned from increasing supplies through construction large hydraulic infrastructure, to reducing demand for liquid by users. New neoliberal strategies on recovering delivery costs users, efficiency systems, and decentralizing maintenance operation. In northern Mexico, this decentralized is accompanied educational programs designed create a culture based shared environmental economic values surveillance use...
Abstract Over the last 150 years or so engineers, farmers, scientists, and many others around globe have gained access to waters that lie underground with drilling technology, pumps cheap energy. Since mid‐twentieth century, a massive worldwide proliferation of deep wells has redistributed groundwaters away from springs, seeps, wells, oases, robbing them water supports local sustainable socionatural relations. The idea social fact groundwater emerged in this history, three distinguishing...
This article is an introduction to a special section of the Journal Political Ecology that presents Mexican perspective on transnational dimensions water use and management in Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Three articles by leading scholars discuss anthropology history The are interdisciplinary, linked different ways pioneering research Mexico established Angel Palerm.
Rural production has long been a central topic for social sciences and history of Latin America, scholars have noted the ways that societies environments form around productive systems. Inspired by Gastón Gordillo's 2014 book Rubble, this article introduces Special Section JPE shifts focus to inseparably destructive aspects production. We acknowledge temporal dynamics booms busts in American commodity production, but challenge recent tendencies glorify destruction as necessarily positively...
This article discusses the infrastructures involved in management and use of water borderlands Mexico United States. I maintain that both physical works institutions should be understood as infrastructures, locate within larger political economic processes. Archaeological, historical ethnographic literature on irrigation provides data about evolution functioning small‐ large‐scale infrastructures. Since European contact, have enabled different regimes accumulation to grow, overlap decline:...
Since 1992 water scarcity in the Río Bravo/Rio Grande river basin has heightened tensions and conflicts among users politicians on both sides of Mexico-U.S. border. This article argues that while this situation been characterized as an international "water war" stemming from a crisis," it is more accurately described series between regional, binational national actors generated by "crisis irrigated agriculture." A close examination dynamics these current focused delta region Rio Bravo/Grande...
The articles in this section were written by social scientists from different parts of the world doing research on complex relationship between human beings and natural environment, role cultural ideals shaping environmental history. interdisciplinary character papers generates original insights about socio-cultural dimensions problematic, which have been neglected when compared with economic political dimensions. This introduction reviews contents proposed special symposium situates...
The Laguna region of arid central-northern Mexico has fascinated generations historians and social scientists. Two major rivers empty into a desert plain, dramatic combination environmental opulence austerity. Just as are the human efforts to control benefit from that environment. Even before western United States was converted an irrigated emporium capitalist agriculture, settlers in engineered complicated system works channel floodwaters over extensive plains where cotton, quintessential...
Abstract Before 1850 Mexico City’s scarce water resources were produced by a handful of nearby springs channeled through centuries-old city infrastructures to limited number taps in large houses and public fountains that served the majority population. In second half nineteenth century, artesian wells tapping Valley Mexico’s aquifers enabled landowners businessmen produce copious amounts almost anywhere with little effort. Private access groundwater supplied newly built bathhouses propelled...
This article explores the process of centralization water resources by Mexican nation-state between 1880 and 1940, and, in particular, how postrevolutionary state facilitated, after 1920, transference control over Topo Chico mineral springs from local agrarian community to industrial bottling companies. Using archival evidence, it highlights importance science law this argues that must be understood terms “primitive accumulation.” The focuses on hot springs, which provide a privileged window...
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities Interpretive Social Sciences, is result an LSE Research Infrastructure Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Integrity organised by Andrea E. Pia held at London School Economics on September 9, 2019.