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In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Publication Date:
06 November 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520299351
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"Unsettled Waters is an engagingly-written, empirically rich, and helpful new signpost along a throughline of regional literature"
Eric P. Perramond is a geographer and holds a joint appointment in the Environmental and Southwest Studies programs at Colorado College. He is the author of Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico.
List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Cultures of Water Sovereignty in New Mexico
part one. unsettled waters: how water adjudication
works, what it does, and what happens when it fails
1. How Local Waters Become State Water
2. Aamodt, Dammit! Big Trouble in a Small Basin
3. Abeyta: Taos Struggles, Then Negotiates
4. Local Settlements Connect What State Adjudication Severed
part two. the production of water expertise:
the adjudication-industrial complex and its consequences
5. Changing Measures: How Expert Metrics Change Water
6. Working for the Adjudication-Industrial Complex
7. New Water Agents and Actors in Civil Society
part three. adjudicating the unknown future
of new mexico’s water
8. City Water, Native Water, and the Unknown Future
contents Perramond-
9. Beyond Adjudication: Nature’s Share of Water
10. Water Coda, with No End in Sight
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Cultures of Water Sovereignty in New Mexico
part one. unsettled waters: how water adjudication
works, what it does, and what happens when it fails
1. How Local Waters Become State Water
2. Aamodt, Dammit! Big Trouble in a Small Basin
3. Abeyta: Taos Struggles, Then Negotiates
4. Local Settlements Connect What State Adjudication Severed
part two. the production of water expertise:
the adjudication-industrial complex and its consequences
5. Changing Measures: How Expert Metrics Change Water
6. Working for the Adjudication-Industrial Complex
7. New Water Agents and Actors in Civil Society
part three. adjudicating the unknown future
of new mexico’s water
8. City Water, Native Water, and the Unknown Future
contents Perramond-
9. Beyond Adjudication: Nature’s Share of Water
10. Water Coda, with No End in Sight
Notes
References
Index