Abstract
This article is an introduction to a special section of the Journal of Political Ecology that presents a Mexican perspective on the transnational dimensions of water use and management in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Three articles by leading Mexican scholars discuss the anthropology and history of water in the borderlands. The articles are interdisciplinary, and are linked in different ways to pioneering research on water in Mexico established by Angel Palerm.
Highlights
Like many other dimensions of life in the borderlands, the scholarship in the pages of this special section of the Journal of Political Ecology is at the same time oriented by, yet transgressive of, the national-state divide and the ways it has shaped the dynamics of the social use of water in the region, as well as the intellectual effort to understand these dynamics
In the article published here, Martínez Saldaña presents research on the long history of what is today northern Mexico and the Southwest United States, to recover millennial traditions of Mesoamerican water culture that still shape the use of the resource throughout the binational region, despite a profound reshaping of environment and society by state-led modernist hydraulic projects during the twentieth century (Martínez Saldaña 2012)
Luis Aboites takes up the story of water use in the borderlands of northern Mexico during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when advances in engineering, technology and agricultural production completely reworked human relationships to water and the environment, superceding and destroying many of the earlier, smaller water systems and societies in the region discussed by Martínez Saldaña (Aboites 2012)
Summary
Like many other dimensions of life in the borderlands, the scholarship in the pages of this special section of the Journal of Political Ecology is at the same time oriented by, yet transgressive of, the national-state divide and the ways it has shaped the dynamics of the social use of water in the region, as well as the intellectual effort to understand these dynamics.
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