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Published: 11 January 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021247-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2124-7
Book Chapter

By Mikael D. Wolfe
... Mexican Revolution Francisco I. Madero Water law Aniego irrigation Cotton ...
Book Chapter

By Mikael D. Wolfe
... Mexican Revolution Francisco I. Madero Water law Aniego irrigation Cotton ...
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373063-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7306-3
... simultaneously or, more often, worked at cross-purposes. Mexican Revolution Francisco I. Madero Water law Aniego irrigation Cotton ...
..., the rest of the book shows how these mandates could be carried out simultaneously or, more often, worked at cross-purposes. Mexican Revolution Francisco I. Madero Water law Aniego irrigation Cotton The chapter opens with the ill-fated effort by the “apostle of Mexican democracy,” Francisco...
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373599-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7359-9
... The introduction urges attention to the ordinary practices through which settlements have been constructed in Mumbai. Focusing on the process through which a resident finds a way to repair her water pipe, this chapter suggests that Mumbai’s water infrastructure is a living, breathing, leaking...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-132
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... the rain, Olivera points out, was considered a resource to be commodified by Law 2029, the neoliberal legislation on drinking water and sanitation. According to Olivera, powerful corporate interests, especially foreign ones, sought to appropriate public goods for private profit, and the Bolivian government...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-133
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
.... Beyond Cochabamba, new fronts of protest opened up on the altiplano of La Paz, in Oruro and Potosí. Ultimately, on 10 April, the government conceded: the foreign water consortium Aguas del Tunari would withdraw, and neoliberal water legislation (Law 2029) would be reformulated. The Water War...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... movements and civil society in Cochabamba. Even the rain, Olivera points out, was considered a resource to be commodified by Law 2029, the neoliberal legislation on drinking water and sanitation. According to Olivera, powerful corporate interests, especially foreign ones, sought to appropriate public goods...
Published: 16 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374930-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7493-0
...Regarding Christian Bodies This chapter treats the poetics of flesh in the Gospel of John, highlighting the movement of central images: flesh, bread, spirit, and water. The gospel articulates the incarnation in terms of “flesh” rather than body. Salvation is envisioned through flesh...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027553-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2755-3
... in the War on Drugs has meant a focus on destroying drugs where they grow. It has also prompted growers to hide their activities. As a result, the War on Drugs has led to environmental harms such as excessive pesticide use, deforestation, and pollution, including of water supplies. crop destruction...
Published: 14 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7366-7
..., and a novel Song of the Water Saints (2002), to demonstrate how the logic of the occupation contributed to imagining the Dominican racialized body as a site that needed to be controlled and civilized. The nonofficial evidence the chapter recovers and preserves show the multiple ways in which racialized...
Series: Elements
Published: 19 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059011-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5901-1
... slaughter and transshipment of sharks from the waters surrounding Timor-Leste and the Galápagos National Park, Ecuador, to China. While the drone assisted this conservation, ultimately the marine poachers escaped with impunity because of a bribe. In the process, this chapter argues that the capacities...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Urus are one of the most ancient groups in the southern Andes, linked fundamentally with the exploitation of lacustrine and riverine resources through fishing and hunting. They are known as “men of the water” and as the survivors or “leftovers” after a calamitous historical transformation. Thus...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... and riverine resources through fishing and hunting. They are known as “men of the water” and as the survivors or “leftovers” after a calamitous historical transformation. Thus, their Aymara neighbors see them as beings who are associated with a lack of civilization and a pre-baptismal era. The testimony...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
...).The kaleidoscopic aftermath of Lee’s defeat has also been examined with care; see Gary W. Gallagher, “Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige: The Impact of Gettysburg on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate Home Front,” and A. Wilson Greene, “From Gettysburg to Falling Waters: Meade’s Pursuit...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
...).The kaleidoscopic aftermath of Lee’s defeat has also been examined with care; see Gary W. Gallagher, “Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige: The Impact of Gettysburg on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate Home Front,” and A. Wilson Greene, “From Gettysburg to Falling Waters: Meade’s Pursuit...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-033
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
...).The kaleidoscopic aftermath of Lee’s defeat has also been examined with care; see Gary W. Gallagher, “Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige: The Impact of Gettysburg on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate Home Front,” and A. Wilson Greene, “From Gettysburg to Falling Waters: Meade’s Pursuit...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
...).The kaleidoscopic aftermath of Lee’s defeat has also been examined with care; see Gary W. Gallagher, “Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige: The Impact of Gettysburg on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate Home Front,” and A. Wilson Greene, “From Gettysburg to Falling Waters: Meade’s Pursuit...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
...).The kaleidoscopic aftermath of Lee’s defeat has also been examined with care; see Gary W. Gallagher, “Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige: The Impact of Gettysburg on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate Home Front,” and A. Wilson Greene, “From Gettysburg to Falling Waters: Meade’s Pursuit...