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Politics of Water, The - Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico (Paperback, New Ed)
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Politics of Water, The - Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Monterrey is Mexico's second most important industrial city,
emerging in this era of free trade as a cornerstone of Mexico's
economic development. But development has been uneven and has taken
a toll: As recently as the early 1980s, nearly a quarter of the
city's almost three million inhabitants did not have running water
in their homes. At the same time, heavy industry - especially
steel, iron, chemical, and paper works - were major users of water
in their production processes.
Extensive industrialization coupled with a lack of infrastructure
development astonishing in a major industrial city raises serious
questions about the process of planning urban services in Mexico.
Bennett uses the water crisis of the 1980s as a lens through which
to reveal this planning process and the provision of public
services in Monterrey. She finds three groups who were central to
the evolution of the city's water system: federal and state
government leaders, the regional private sector elite (the Grupo
Monterrey), and women living in the low-income neighborhoods of the
city.
Bennett unravels the politics of water in Monterrey by following
three threads of inquiry. First, she examines the water services
themselves - what was built, when, why, and who paid for them. She
then reveals the response of poor women to the water crisis,
analyzing who participated in protests, the strategies they used,
and how the government responded. And, finally, she considers the
dynamics of planning water services for the private sector and the
government in investment and management. In the end, Monterrey's
water services improved because power relations shifted and because
poor women in Monterrey used protests tomake national news out of
the city's water crisis.
"The Politics of Water" makes a significant contribution to the
emerging scholarship on regional politics in Mexico and to a deeper
understanding of the Monterrey region in particular. Until
recently, most scholarly writing on Mexico spoke of the national
political system as a monolithic whole. Scholars such as Vivienne
Bennett are now recognizing the power of local citizens and the
significant differences among regions when it comes to politics,
policy making, and governmental investment decisions.
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