Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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La polÃtica de la construcción de presas. hot!
- Erward Goldsmith y Nicholas Hildyard / La polÃtica de la construcción de presas.
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Construcción de presas hidroeléctricas y estructuras axiales estatales.hot!
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López Cortés, Eliseo / Construcción de presas hidroeléctricas y estructuras axiales estatales.
Construction of hydroelectric reservoirs and state axial structures.
This article reviews, from the anthropological framework of anthropologist Richard N. Adams for the analysis of power structures, the causes which lead national governments to the construction of gigantic hydroelectric reservoirs. His empirical reference is the construction of the Miguel Alemán reservoir in the Low Mazateca, which reaches the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz (Mexico). At the same time, it undertakes a dialogue with Karl Wittfogel’s Oriental Despotism theory.
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La evolución de los lagos artificiales. El impacto ecológico de la Presa Miguel Alemán. hot!
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Tyrtania, Leonardo / La evolución de los lagos artificiales. El impacto ecológico de la Presa Miguel Alemán.
The evolution of artificial lakes: the ecological impact of the Miguel Alemán Reservoir.
When the author analyses the ecological impact of the Miguel Alemán Reservoir, he questions the generalized belief that large reservoirs bring great benefits, and that without them poverty would be even worse. Me bases himself on the research by Goldsmith and Hildyard, which has studied over 30 reservoirs built all over the world, and no where has poverty and hunger been eliminated, let alone has the“environment improved". In the case of the Miguel Alemán Reservoir, Tyrtania concludes that the region looks like a“disaster zone", and he says so because he is convinced that for research to contribute to define problems, it must begin calling things by their name (regardless of whether problems have or don’t have a solution).
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BahÃas de Huatulco. Reseña de la reubicaciónhot!
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Orozco Cervantes, Patricia / BahÃas de Huatulco.
Reseña de la reubicación. Huatulco Bays. Outline of the Relocation.
As the title of this article indicates, Orozco outlines the relocation process of the populations involved in the construction of the Huatulco Bays Tourist project (Mexico). The author follows the negotiation and moving stages of the populations of the zone step by step and indicates that the process was extremely difficult, for the pressure of groups, the opportunism of its leaders, the populism of the Government of the State of Oaxaca, the lack of definition of a policy to meet the social demands among others, were all part of it.
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