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<b style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">“Water for the Revolution: An Envirotech History of Agrarian Reform in ‘La Laguna,’ Mexico”</font></b></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Mikael Wolfe</b><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">I use an envirotech approach to revise understanding of Mexican agrarian reform, the principal raison d’être of
the 1910 Mexican Revolution central to postrevolutionary Mexican state formation. I focus on the understudied role of engineers (<i>técnicos</i>) trying to supply sufficient water for massive land redistribution in the arid north central cotton rich Laguna
region in 1936. Serving as mediators between the state, society, and nonhuman nature, I argue that técnicos faced an inherent contradiction between the urgency for water conservation and satisfying insatiable demand for water by deploying invasive hydraulic
technology—a contradiction that made agrarian reform unsustainable in the long term.</span><o:p>
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