Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans: An Environmental History

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Clare Cardinal-Pett

Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans

An Environmental History

Clare Cardinal-Pett

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
20 November 2024

History of the Americas; Historical geography; Indigenous peoples

Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans: An Environmental History charts the development of the indigenous hydro-social territories and their colonial transformations into “modern” political ecologies. This book begins with a summary of the environmental histories of these regions before the arrival of people. To give water its due as an agent of historical processes, it is important to understand its role in shaping these three distinct ecosystems – a role it still plays today despite thousands of years of human intervention in the hydrological nature of those systems. It is certain that, as human-caused climate changes rework ecosystems worldwide, surviving the Anthropocene in Mexico City, New Orleans, and Lima will require other ways of knowing water – as hydro-social territories that challenge modern notions of urbanism and foreground ways of knowing formerly considered archaic. Following the inextricable histories of water and anthropogenic landscapes provokes many questions about the nature of cities, especially questions of environmental justice. The answers should not be abstract or universal. Instead, Clare Cardinal-Pett argues that urbanization on the planet must be reimagined and reconstructed as bio-regional systems and hydro-social territories that can be best defined more comprehensively as political ecologies.

By: Clare Cardinal-Pett
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781666914832
ISBN 10: 1666914835
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 20 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clare Cardinal-Pett is associate professor emerita in the Architecture Department at Iowa State University.

Reviews for Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans: An Environmental History

Clare Cardinal-Pett had already changed the way we understand the spaces of the Americas with her History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas from 2016. In Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans: An Environmental History, she goes deeper into the relationship between cities and water, from ancient times to European colonization and contemporary challenges. Stitching the Americas once again, this book makes a fundamental contribution to the urgent effort of decolonizing the knowledge of our own spatial history.--Fernando Luiz Lara, University of Pennsylvania