Withered Milpas: Governmental Disaster and the Mexican Countryside
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Los teoristas de la globalización han demonstrado como los proyectos destinados a profundizar la integración trasnacional económica y polı́tica, pueden producir nuevas formas de riesgo y vulnerabilidad. Los desastres naturales o no sirven como encrucijadas, por medio de las que se revelan varios enlaces: entre las estructuras de poder locales y globales, entre la cultura ideológica y material, entre las sociedades humanas y los ambientes naturales. Este artı́culo investiga como los efectos sinergisticos de la integración económica norteamericana, la privatización y corporatización de la agricultura mexicana, los mercados internacionales del maı́z inestables, y el cambio climático global, se experimentan como un ‘‘desastre gubernamental’’ en las vidas de los campesinos del estado de Hidalgo, México. El presente estudio analiza como una consciencia particular acerca de la catástrofe es producida y comunicada por medio de un disurso de la desecación, el cual se basa en ideas tradicionales sobre la explotación y la vulnerabilidad. Vivir el desastre como una exclusión permanente de las formas politicas colectivas, sirve para reforzar y respaldar a los proyectos de neoliberalización que funcionan para individualizar las practı́ces de ciudadanı́a en el campo mexicano. Globalization theorists have demonstrated how projects aimed at deepening transnational economic and political integration produce new forms of risk and vulnerability. DisastersFnatural and otherwiseFserve as critical nodes through which a variety of links are revealed: between local and global power structures, ideological and material culture, and human societies, and natural environments. This article examines how the synergistic effects of North American economic integration, the privatization and corporatization of Mexican agriculture, volatile international
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