Desertification and Resistance: The Historical-Environmental Origins of the Cucapá Fishing Cooperatives (1937-2015)

This paper analyzes from environmental history, the different experiences of Baja California cucapá community in the “modern” social economy. From this point I pretend to glimpse how environmental socioecosystem transformations in Colorado River Delta led to the Cocopah community seek new livelihood...

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Autor principal: Bonada Chavarría, Alejandro
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/22087
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Sumario:This paper analyzes from environmental history, the different experiences of Baja California cucapá community in the “modern” social economy. From this point I pretend to glimpse how environmental socioecosystem transformations in Colorado River Delta led to the Cocopah community seek new livelihoods, as traditional were exhausted following the creation of irrigation districts the former wetlands. The work establishes three stages of social economy: ejido, communal / first generation of fishing cooperatives and cooperative within the neoliberal regime.