Of Information Highways and Toxic Byways: Women and Environmental Protest in a Northern Mexican City
Author
O'Leary, Anna OchoaAffiliation
Pima Community College, Department of Social and Cultural StudiesIssue Date
2002Keywords
Women -- Political activity -- Mexico -- HermosilloEnvironmental protection -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
Environmental protection -- Mexico -- Hermosillo -- Citizen participation
Social networks -- Mexico -- Hermosillo
Protest movements -- Mexico -- Hermosillo -- Case studies
Women political activists -- Mexico -- Hermosillo
Hazardous waste sites -- Mexico -- Hermosillo
Metadata
Show full item recordRights
The MASRC Working Paper Series © The Arizona Board of RegentsCollection Information
The goal of the Mexican American Studies & Research Center's Working Paper Series is to disseminate recent research on the Mexican American experience. The Center welcomes papers from the social sciences, public policy fields, and the humanities. Areas of particular interest include economic and political participation of Mexican Americans, health, immigration, and education. The Mexican American Studies & Research Center assumes no responsibility for statements or opinions of contributors to its Working Paper Series.Abstract
Women’s involvement in collective struggles for environmental quality has surged in recent years, as has research focusing on this phenomenon. Consistent with this research, a feminist lens is useful in revealing a model of community struggle that features women’s activities and strategies to expose environmental insult. I use a case study of community protest in Hermosillo, a city in the Mexican state of Sonora, to feature social networks as a means of politicizing the placement of a toxic waste dump six kilometers outside the city. A feminist perspective reveals these social networks to be more than a way to mobilize resources. It allow us to see the ways in which gender interacts with globalized relations of power, political ecology, and environmental policy, and to validate a creative way in which women can out-maneuver the gendered constraints to political participation. An analysis of how social networks served in this particular struggle suggests that they are an important component in the process through which women gained voice and authored oppositional discourse in contexts where these have been previously denied, and ultimately deconstructed the political authority that sanctioned the dump.Identifiers
0732-7749http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219212
793456038
Series/Report no.
MASRC Working Paper Series; 30Additional Links
http://mas.arizona.edu/node/658Collections
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Study and evaluation of the soils of the agricultural farm "Alamos" in Hermosillo, Sonora, MexicoCorella Gutierrez, Ramón Rafael, 1938- (The University of Arizona., 1961)
-
La extensión de estar a través del tiempo y el espacio: Un estudio diacrónico de los siglos XIII-XX y sincrónico de Hermosillo, Sonora y el Sur de ArizonaCarvalho, Ana M.; Bessett, Ryan Matthew; Colina, Sonia; Beaudrie, Sara (The University of Arizona., 2012)Este estudio consiste en dos análisis: el primero es un análisis diacrónico que traza el avance de la cópula estar invadiendo al ámbito de ser en el español del siglo XIII al siglo XX basado en el Corpus del Español de Davis (2000-) y que discute el mecanismo diacrónico que promueve el avance, la gramaticalización; el segundo es un análisis sincrónico variacionista que compara la extensión de estar en contextos donde normativamente se espera ser en las variedades de español habladas en Hermosillo, Sonora, y en el Sur de Arizona. A través del análisis de 1,300 ocurrencias en 40 entrevistas, este estudio determina los factores sociales y lingüísticos que condicionan la realización de esta variable entre grupos bilingües y monolingües. Estudios variacionistas anteriores detectaron un uso de la variable en contextos monolingües (Gutiérrez 1992; Cortés-Torres 2004; Alfaraz 2012) y bilingües (Silva- Corvalán 1994; Ortiz-López 2000; Gutiérrez 2003; Lowther y Lindsey 2005; Salazar 2007), con una aceleración en su uso en algunas comunidades bilingües. Los factores significativos de los estudios anteriores incluyen: tipo de adjetivo (Gutiérrez 1992; Silva- Corvalán 1994; Cortés-Torres 2004; Alfaraz 2012), educación (Gutiérrez 1992; Cortés- Torres 2004), edad (Gutiérrez 1992; Silva-Corvalán 1994; Alfaraz 2012) y género (Gutiérrez 1992; Silva-Corvalán 1994). Los resultados del análisis diacrónico indican que desde el cambio del latín al español medieval, estar empezó a tomar el lugar de ser. A través de una discusión de las definiciones de la gramaticalización y los rasgos de procesos de este tipo, concluimos que la extensión de estar se caracteriza como un proceso de gramaticalización. Los resultados del análisis sincrónico muestran un uso innovador de estar de 16.2% en Hermosillo y 20.8% en el Sur de Arizona, porcentajes comparables a los estudios anteriores. La procedencia del hablante (Hermosillo/Sur de Arizona) no es estadísticamente significativa y la distribución de los factores es bastante parecida en las dos comunidades. Esto surgiere que el bilingüismo (español/inglés) no resulta en una aceleración del uso innovador en este corpus, lo cual concuerda con Ortiz-López (2000) y Lowther y Lindsey (2005) y difiere de Silva-Corvalán (1994) y Salazar (2007). Los factores de tipo de adjetivo (edad, tamaño), grado de menos atención y nivel académico más bajo favorecen el estar innovador. Los resultados de este estudio concuerdan con estudios anteriores en cuanto a los factores que favorecen el uso innovador, los tipos de adjetivo (Gutiérrez 1992; Silva-Corvalán 1994; Cortés-Torres 2004) y nivel académico (Gutiérrez 1992; Cortés-Torres 2004). Este estudio contribuye al conocimiento de la variable en general y provee evidencia que no hay una tendencia general de una aceleración del uso innovador como resultado del bilingüismo (español/inglés).
-
Outdoor spatial spraying against dengue: A false sense of security among inhabitants of Hermosillo, MexicoReyes-Castro, Pablo A.; Castro-Luque, Lucia; Diaz-Caravantes, Rolando; Walker, Kathleen R.; Hayden, Mary H.; Ernst, Kacey C.; Univ Arizona (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2017-05-17)Background Government-administered adulticiding is frequently conducted in response to dengue transmission worldwide. Anecdotal evidence suggests that spraying may create a "false sense of security' for residents. Our objective was to determine if there was an association between residents' reporting outdoor spatial insecticide spraying as way to prevent dengue transmission and both their reported frequency of dengue prevention practices and household entomological indices in Hermosillo, Mexico. Methodology/Principal findings A non-probabilistic survey of 400 households was conducted in August 2014. An oral questionnaire was administered to an adult resident and the outer premises of the home were inspected for water-holding containers and presence of Ae. aegypti larvae and pupae. Self-reported frequency of prevention practices were assessed among residents who reported outdoor spatial spraying as a strategy to prevent dengue (n = 93) and those who did not (n = 307). Mixed effects negative binomial regression was used to assess associations between resident's reporting spraying as a means to prevent dengue and container indices. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to determine associations with presence/absence of larvae and pupae. Those reporting spatial spraying disposed of trash less frequently and spent less time indoors to avoid mosquitoes. They also used insecticides and larvicides more often and covered their water containers more frequently. Their backyards had more containers positive for Ae. aegypti (RR = 1.92) and there was a higher probability of finding one or more Ae. aegypti pupae (OR = 2.20). Survey respondents that reported spatial spraying prevented dengue were more likely to be older and were exposed to fewer media sources regarding prevention. Conclusions/Significance The results suggest that the perception that outdoor spatial spraying prevents dengue is associated with lower adoption of prevention practices and higher entomological risk. This provides some support to the hypothesis that spraying may lead to a "false sense of security". Further investigations to clarify this relationship should be conducted. Government campaigns should emphasize the difficulty in controlling Ae. aegypti mosquitoes and the need for both government and community action to minimize risk of dengue transmission.