On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest
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On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Internal to the various U.S. 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 often arid terrain, an ecosystem that burns easily and floods often and defies our efforts to nestle in its foothills, canyons, and washes. It explores the challenges in the Southwest of learning how to live within this complex natural system while grasping its historical and environmental frameworks. Understanding these framing devices is critical to reaching the political accommodations necessary to build a more generous society, a more habitable landscape, and a more just community.
ISBN
9781595341471
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Trinity University Press
City
San Antonio
Keywords
Human ecology, Natural history, Southwestern states
Disciplines
Environmental Sciences | History | Nature and Society Relations
Recommended Citation
Miller, Char. On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest. San Antonio: Trinity Press, 2013.
