{"title":"Valle Imperial/valle de Mexicali, 1910–28: su impacto en la cuenca del río Colorado y la disputa por los usos sociales","authors":"M. A. López","doi":"10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.60","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:El propósito del artículo es analizar la intensa relación binacional impuesta por las condiciones geográficas en el río Colorado en el reparto del recurso hídrico entre México y Estados Unidos en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Empresarios, los Gobiernos de Estados Unidos y México, agricultores e ingenieros negociaron, disputaron y entrelazaron sus intereses para tomar decisiones sobre el uso y distribución del agua de este río, a tal punto que las controversias y acuerdos formales todavía tienen peso hasta nuestros días. La historiografía ha privilegiado contextos nacionales y locales para explicar este proceso, un enfoque que ignora la complejidad transnacional que caracterizó la disputa por el recurso del agua y que tuvo implicaciones en el poblamiento y el crecimiento de la sociedad en ambos lados de la frontera. Este ensayo argumenta que es indispensable romper la dicotomía de historiografías nacionales, adoptando un enfoque transnacional para fortalecer la centralidad de un proceso histórico que estuvo enmarcado en el ámbito de las cuencas internacionales.Abstract:The purpose of the article is to analyze the intense binational relationship imposed by the geographic conditions of the Colorado River in the distribution of water resources between Mexico and the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. Entrepreneurs, the US and Mexican governments, as well as farmers and engineers, negotiated, disputed, and intertwined their interests as they made decisions about the use and distribution of this river's water, to such an extent that the controversies and formal agreements still carry weight to this day. The historiography, however, has privileged national and local contexts to explain this process, an approach that ignores the transnational complexity that characterized the dispute over water resources, which had implications for the population settlements and society growth on both sides of the border. This article argues that it is essential to break the dichotomy of national historiographies by adopting a transnational approach to strengthen the centrality of a historical process framed within the scope of international water basins.","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"1 1","pages":"60 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.60","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:El propósito del artículo es analizar la intensa relación binacional impuesta por las condiciones geográficas en el río Colorado en el reparto del recurso hídrico entre México y Estados Unidos en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Empresarios, los Gobiernos de Estados Unidos y México, agricultores e ingenieros negociaron, disputaron y entrelazaron sus intereses para tomar decisiones sobre el uso y distribución del agua de este río, a tal punto que las controversias y acuerdos formales todavía tienen peso hasta nuestros días. La historiografía ha privilegiado contextos nacionales y locales para explicar este proceso, un enfoque que ignora la complejidad transnacional que caracterizó la disputa por el recurso del agua y que tuvo implicaciones en el poblamiento y el crecimiento de la sociedad en ambos lados de la frontera. Este ensayo argumenta que es indispensable romper la dicotomía de historiografías nacionales, adoptando un enfoque transnacional para fortalecer la centralidad de un proceso histórico que estuvo enmarcado en el ámbito de las cuencas internacionales.Abstract:The purpose of the article is to analyze the intense binational relationship imposed by the geographic conditions of the Colorado River in the distribution of water resources between Mexico and the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. Entrepreneurs, the US and Mexican governments, as well as farmers and engineers, negotiated, disputed, and intertwined their interests as they made decisions about the use and distribution of this river's water, to such an extent that the controversies and formal agreements still carry weight to this day. The historiography, however, has privileged national and local contexts to explain this process, an approach that ignores the transnational complexity that characterized the dispute over water resources, which had implications for the population settlements and society growth on both sides of the border. This article argues that it is essential to break the dichotomy of national historiographies by adopting a transnational approach to strengthen the centrality of a historical process framed within the scope of international water basins.
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The rich cultural production and unique peoples of Mexico--coupled with the country"s complex history, political legacy, social character, economy, and scientific development--lay the foundation for the bilingual Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, the only U.S. published academic journal of its kind. Journal articles in both English and Spanish are welcomed from a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, comparative analyses notwithstanding. All content published remains focused on the contributions to and knowledge of Mexican studies as a discipline.