I explained my predicament and he immediately offered to look into it. But as soon as the receiver at the other end was picked up, I recognized Fernando’s voice. I had not seen him for over ten years and I was not even sure if the old phone number I had in my address book was still correct. So, I picked up the phone to call my old friend and former co-fellow at the Centre for Metropolitan Research and Planning at Johns Hopkins University, Fernando Moliní, now professor of geography at Madrid’s Autonomous University. The problem was that I needed a personal invitation from a local university. For these reasons, it offered an appealing laboratory to extend into new domains my political-ecological work on the relationships between social and political power on the one hand and water and its hydro-social organization on the other. At the same time, Spain was also suffering from an extraordinary period of drought that had lasted several years and had sparked an intensely politicized debate over water and water resource management. At the time, most of Spain’s regions (with the exception of the Madrid region and Catalonia) fitted the bill. The latter were regions that performed economically far below the EU’s average and would benefit from “knowledge transfer”’ by “experienced” scholars. That morning I was trying to finalize a proposal for the European Union’s Marie Curie Fellowship program that permitted senior researchers to undertake work in what the EU’s bureaucratic jargon then defined as Objective 5 regions. This book project commenced on a rainy Saturday morning in 1995 in my office in the School of Geography at Oxford University. “Water Does Not Exist!” 223 Notes 231 References 249 Index 285 Marshall! 129 7 Marching Forward to the Past: From Hydro-Deadlock to Water and Modernity Reimagined 163 8 Mobilizing the Seas: Reassembling Hydro-Modernities 191 9 Politicizing Water, Politicizing Natures, Or. ”: Spain’s Cyborg Water World 1 2 The Hydro-Social Cycle and the Making of Cyborg Worlds 19 3 “Regeneracionismo” and the Emergence of Hydraulic Modernization, 1898–1930 39 4 Chronicle of a Death Foretold: The Failure of Early Twentieth-Century Hydraulic Modernization 67 5 Paco El Rana’s Wet Dream for Spain 99 6 Welcome Mr. Preface ix List of Acronyms xiii 1 “Not a Drop of Water. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. Printed and bound in the United States of America. For information, please email This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Liquid Power Water and Contested Modernities in Spain, 1898–2010 Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental Collegeįor a complete list of books published in this series, please see the back of the book. #LUCIA MARZO ALZOLA MISS EUSKADI SERIES#Urban and Industrial Environments Series editor: Robert Gottlieb, Henry R.
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