In the twenty-first century, a new water discourse is emerging, carried by the humanities. It focuses on cultural changes, such as an emphasis on gender and race differentiations in water relations, ways water features in urban design, and decolonial analyses of water practices. It is deeply informed by new materialist and posthumanist attention to the acti…
Carving out the narrowed girth of southern Mexico, the Isthmus of Tehu-antepec is home to a anemometric quality that is nearly unmatched. Wind is valuable here, its steady pulse an ideal quotient of kinetic force to turn the blades of turbines that, in turn, make electricity. With this wind develop-ment might follow; with this wind new wealth might follow. And these are two of the …