ISBN:
9781595341471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version On the Edge : Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest
DDC:
304.20979
Keywords:
Southwestern States - Environmental conditions
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Southwestern States - Environmental conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native's eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the border, and the region's evolution into a no-man's land.The book investigates how we live on this contested land --how we make our place in its oft-arid terrain; an ecosystem that burn
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Moving in Place; One: Alamo City; White Gold; City Brew; Organizing for War; Political Legend; Buyer's Remorse; Danger: Work Ahead; Holy Moses!; Repairing Eden; Springtime; Central Core; Going for Green; Ebb and Flow; Back to Nature; Two: Rough Waters; No Relief; Storm Warning; Ike's Wake; Three: Borderline Anxieties; Fiery Deaths; Lockup; Highway Robbery; Homeland Insecurity; Why Friendship Park Mattered; Praise Song; Political Agency; Bulldozing Nature; Behind Bars; Walled Off; Just Litter; Wandering in the Wilderness; Four: Southland; On Fire; Up in Smoke; Sliding Away
Description / Table of Contents:
Shaken and StirredOn the Wild Side; Forget the Garden of Eden; Let It Be; Damaged Desert; Step Back; Net Loss; Shady Dealings; Breathe Deep; Pumped Dry; Course Correction; Mud Fight; Afterword: Homeward Bound; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author
Note:
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