ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Neoliberalism
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1949: structural reasons for crisis, too often we think of project as way of making things better instead of historical process, create irrigated cotton across mexico, use water to irrigate fields, set people who had been floating as migrant workers etc that ended up in the migrant rev. as the small farmers of these irrigation districts, point of past lecture is how gvmt did that in process of historical development, they were hugely successful. Poverty etc: how water management has changed from mid 20th c to present, how water is being managed in northern mexico, derives from concept of neoliberalism, new cities all dedicated to cotton, cotton prices fell: biggest factor to cotton plan falling apart, prices falling apart, makes profits slimmer and slimmer, pest problems (problems with cotton production): grow the same plant over and over again create perfect conditions for pests.
