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Overview"Agrarian reforms transformed the Mexican countryside in the late twentieth century but without, in many cases, altering fundamental power relationships. This study of the Tehuacan Valley in the state of Puebla highlights different strategies to manipulate the local implementation of federal government programs. With their very differing successes in the struggle to regain and maintain control of land and water rights, these strategies raise important questions about the meaning of the phrase ""locally controlled development."" Because Mexico is dependent on irrigation for 45 percent of its cash crop production, national policy has focused on developing vast government controlled and financed irrigation systems. In the Tehuacan Valley, however, the inhabitants have developed a complex irrigation system without government aid or supervision. Yet, in contrast to most parts of Mexico, water rights can be bought and sold as a commodity, leading to accumulation, stratification, and emergence of a regional elite whose power is based on ownership of land and water. The analysis provides an important contribution to the understanding of local control. The findings of this study will be important to a wide audience involved in the study of irrigation, local agricultural systems, and the interplay between local power structures and the national government in developing countries. The book also presents unique material on gravity-fed, horizontal wells, known as qanat in the Middle East, which had been unknown in the literature on Latin America before this book." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kjell I. Enge , Scott WhitefordPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780292753976ISBN 10: 0292753977 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 01 April 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword by Robert C. Hunt Preface 1. Mexican Rural Development and Irrigation 2. The Tehuacán Valley 3. The Pre-Conquest Development of Agriculture and Irrigation 4. Post-Conquest Conflict over Land and Water 5. Cooperation and Differentiation 6. Elites and Irrigation Association Management 7. “We Are All Campesinos”: The Contradictions of Growth 8. Conclusions: The State versus Local Interests Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKjell I. Enge is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. Scott Whiteford is Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, at the University of Arizona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |