TY - JOUR AU - Sánchez Rodríguez, Martín PY - 2022/02/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Tightening the Screws: Irrigation and the State in Mexico, 1888-1939 JF - Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape JA - AYT-WAL VL - IS - 20 SE - Miscellaneous DO - 10.17561/at.20.6052 UR - https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/atma/article/view/6052 SP - e6052 AB - <p>From the law on the use of waters under federal jurisdiction of 1910 to the national water law of 1992, there are concepts that have remained in force or with minimal changes. The article aims to offer elements of how the intervention of the State occurs in the social organization of irrigators in a semi-arid area in Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a historical work that analyzes the regulations on the uses of water in the first federal intervention in this matter. The study focuses on two aspects, the difference between centralization and federalization and the way in which the State intervenes in social organization. The contribution of the work is that it applies a new approach to the process of federalization of water in Mexico that has to do with social organization.</p> ER -