... The chapter examines the postwar and post-dam transformation of the Laguna’s water regime, characterized by a sharp, rightward sociopolitical turn in Mexico; severe drought; and profligate use of chemical pesticides and groundwater pumps in the late 1940s and 1950s. As a case study, it focuses...

... This chapter focuses on the Yaqui resistance to unregulated pesticide spraying and the transportation of toxic pesticides in Mexico, resulting in devastating health effects for Yaqui women and children. Though the North American Free Trade Agreement bans some toxic pesticides in the United...

... Yaqui NAFTA resistance racialized violence unregulated pesticide spraying ...

... Drought Pesticides Groundwater pumping prohibitions Marte R. Gómez Worthington Pump Company ...

...Globalization and Economic Integration's Impacts on Cross-Border Indigenous Peoples This chapter focuses on the Yaqui resistance to unregulated pesticide spraying and the transportation of toxic pesticides in Mexico, resulting in devastating health effects for Yaqui women and children. Though...

... The supply-side approach taken 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...

... drought; and profligate use of chemical pesticides and groundwater pumps in the late 1940s and 1950s. As a case study, it focuses on the politically well-connected técnico, former secretary of agriculture (1928–1930, 1940–1946) and self-styled Zapatista and agrarista Marte R. Gómez. It shows how he helped...

... This essay analyzes how Indra Sinha, in his 2007 novel, Animal’s People , uses the allegorical figure of the protagonist Animal to address the human rights tragedies that resulted from a disastrous gas leak from an American-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, in 1984. By refusing...

... between what used to be conceived as inert ecological “resources” and their erstwhile human “managers.” People begin to speak of their bodies as constituted and reconstituted by pesticides, “good bacteria,” radioactive cesium, and the like, constituents they might formerly have perceived as quite separate...

... 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...

... to address the human rights tragedies that resulted from a disastrous gas leak from an American-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, in 1984. By refusing corrective surgery offered by American benefactors for the spinal deformation he suffers as a result of the disaster, Animal insists on remaining...