Journal of the Southwest articles from December 2003

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 2003

Introduction.(Editorial)
December 22, 2003... My students and colleagues do me great honor in dedicating these papers and this edition of the Journal of the Southwest to me on the occasion of my retirement from a long, thoroughly enjoyable, and infinitely enriching academic career. I am...

Politics across borders: Mexico's policies toward Mexicans in the United States.
December 22, 2003... President Vicente Fox's 2000 characterization of the Mexican community in the United States as "heroes" delighted most of his paisanos on both sides of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande. The Mexican diaspora in the United States had finally come of age....

Public support for due process rights: the case of Guatemala.
December 22, 2003... Democracies have emerged throughout the world over the past decade, but events over the past few years have brought into question the long-term stability of those regimes. (1) The October 1999 coup d'etat in Pakistan that ended a (deeply...

Equitable management of Mexican effluent in Ambos Nogales.(wastewater management in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico)
December 22, 2003... The cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora (together known as Ambos Nogales) have many cultural and historic bonds that tie them together. The communities also share surface and groundwater resources, which have been the source of both...

Water-resources management in the San Pedro basin: building binational alliances.
December 22, 2003... Transboundary water management poses difficult institutional and cultural challenges for U.S.-Mexico watershed initiatives, yet current and past experiences can offer useful lessons for other transboundary water managers and policymakers...

The Arizona-Sonora and Ecuador-Peru borderlands: common interests and shared goals in diverse settings.
December 22, 2003... In an age of globalization, interest in cross-border cooperation has increased significantly throughout the world. National governments and local borderland communities seek to live in harmony with their neighbors to maximize the mutual...

Revising the 1944 Water Treaty: reflections on the Rio Grande drought crises and other matters.
December 22, 2003... In the fabric of U.S.-Mexico border water management, the 1944 United States-Mexico Water Treaty is both the warp and the weft. It would be hard to find a document equally central to the day-to-day management of border water or the settlement...

Corruption and Mexican political culture.
December 22, 2003... Contemporary Mexican political history brims with dramatic, soap-opera-like scandals; wild accusations; seemingly credible evidence of widespread corruption (high and low, bureaucratic and political); and periodic, almost ritualistic...

Showdown at Diamond Bar Ranch: rhetoric and ecology on the Southwest range.
December 22, 2003... What follows is a sort of "rhetoric of geography": an analysis and critique of the environmental and scientific discourse on the Diamond Bar Ranch, one hundred acres of private land commanding livestock access to almost 145,000 acres of public...