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Tetreault and Gomez Fuentes analyze the struggle against the Zapotillo Dam in the Highlands of Jalisco. They seek to explain the formation of a collective agency of resistance in a local and regional context characterized by Catholic conservatism, high levels of migration to the USA, and highly concentrated private ownership of land and water resources. After contextualizing the Zapotillo Dam project in a brief review of historical and contemporary dam-building policies and trends in Mexico, and after critically analyzing the logic behind this particular project, the authors center their investigation on the formation of organized resistance in Temacapulin, the largest of the three towns threatened by flooding. Regional culture, leadership types, and state mediation are examined in order to explain the formation and evolution of popular organized resistance and networking, which has so far prevented the Dam from being completed and filled. |
