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Fluid Geographies
K. Maria D. Lane
其他書名
Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2024-07-18
主題
History / General
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN
022629496X
9780226294964
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ivoFEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system.
Maria Lane’s
Fluid Geographies
traces New Mexico’s transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era. To understand this major shift, Lane carefully examines the primary conflict of the time, which pitted Indigenous and
Nuevomexicano
communities, with their long-established systems of irrigation management, against Anglo-American settlers, who benefitted from centralized bureaucratic management of water. The newcomers’ system eventually became settled law, but water disputes have continued throughout the district courts of New Mexico’s Rio Grande watershed ever since.
Using a fine-grained analysis of legislative texts and nearly two hundred district court cases, Lane analyzes evolving cultural patterns and attitudes toward water use and management in a pivotal time in New Mexico’s history. Illuminating complex themes for a general audience,
Fluid Geographies
helps readers understand how settler colonialism constructed a racialized understanding of scientific expertise and legitimized the dispossession of nonwhite communities in New Mexico.