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UID:pretalx-wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026-XR3XUW@pretalx.com
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DESCRIPTION:Since the late twentieth century\, popular conceptions of the C
 olorado River Delta have focused on the river’s “death” in Mexican s
 ands. The delta has been reduced to allegory: a Christ-like landscape\, ev
 er-dying for the sins of western civilization. This popular conception not
  only projects a fallacious and dated “wilderness ideal\,” it also obs
 cured two transcendent realities. First\, the exploitation of the delta ha
 s been fundamental to the entire river’s allocation across the entire (s
 even-state\, two-nation) basin\, arguably making the delta one of the most
  powerful borderland on the continent. A handful of landowners (and agenci
 es that hold their rights in trust) now command continent-spanning control
  over the most important resource of the American Southwest. Secondly\, an
 d relatedly\, that unsustainable allocation has illuminated the larger fai
 lure of both Mexican and American governments to maintain priority control
  over their vital freshwater resources.\n\nThe “irrigated borderlands”
  and the decentralization of water policy which attended them\, pioneered 
 free-market principles\, which found strong purchased in the in the unregu
 lated margins of Mexico and the United States. It is no coincidence that t
 he delta was ground zero for transnational factories decades before the co
 nclusion of NAFTA. It is also no coincidence that neoliberal environmental
 ism has defined efforts to help “resurrect” the river. The success and
  failures for these efforts notwithstanding\, they have illustrated how fe
 deral power has been diluted and hamstrung by binational water agreements 
 championing export-led growth. Efforts to “resurrect” the delta must b
 e understood within the context of this devolution of federal power..
DTSTAMP:20260412T140204Z
LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84)
SUMMARY:The "Resurrection" of the Colorado River: Neoliberal Environmentali
 sm in the "Irrigated Borderlands" - Eric Boime
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/XR3XUW/
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