Los Intelectuales, El Positivismo Y La Cuestión Indígena

Raat, W. Dirk

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“…Fuelling this internal colonial imaginary there were two parallel visions regarding water and indios as signs and sites of backwardness. Idle waters were imagined to be not only unproductive but potentially dangerous as sources of miasma and disease; indios were impeding Mexico's path to modernity through their inherent inferiority (Dawson 2004; Raat 1971). Infrastructure was instrumental in how these relations would be transformed.…”

Section: Race Environment and Internal Colonialism In The Lerma Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The desiccation project mobilised notions of progress, development, and modernity that show the entanglement of logics of internal colonialism and liberal conceptions of capitalism and citizenship. These were hegemonic in Mexico at the time, represented not only in the local Lerma elites but also at the national level (Dawson 2004; Lomnitz 2010; Raat 1971). As mentioned before, these entailed more than economic imaginaries and were also central in the simultaneous production of environment and race.…”

Section: Race Environment and Internal Colonialism In The Lerma Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Infrastructures of Internal Colonialism: State, Environment, and Race in Lerma, Mexico

Coss‐Corzo

2023

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This article explores the relations between infrastructures, labour, and internal colonialism in Lerma, Mexico. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research of two hydraulic projects there, the article argues that infrastructures are productive of the racial, environmental, and political relations that constitute internal colonialism both historically and contemporarily. I show how these infrastructural projects imagined and produced colonial relations between the environment, racialised workers, and the nation‐state, and how these colonial logics endure today through infrastructures and the forms of racialised labour that maintain them. In doing so, this article contributes to literature that interrogates the relations between infrastructure and coloniality by focusing on how infrastructural labour makes internal colonialism enduring. The article concludes by reflecting on how the labour practices that make internal colonialism enduring also point to ways of producing infrastructures otherwise.

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Section: Race Environment and Internal Colonialism In The Lerma Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Race Environment and Internal Colonialism In The Lerma Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%