Hough, Richard William Stuart
At the Sewer's End: The Social Construction of Environmental Pollution and the Search for Hegemony in Brownsville, Texas
Ph.D. Dissertation.
Kingston, CA: Queen's University, 1999, 323 p.
«This dissertation attributes the rapid growth of the maquiladora industry and its involvement in contaminating the environment along the U.S.-Mexico border in the development of a new world economic order, which began to take shape in the wake of an historico-political movement that the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, termed a passive revolution, i.e. a strategy that calls for far-reaching economic changes without the active consent of the masses, although it invariably leads to gradual changes in society that lay the foundations for hegemony....The bases of this consent [to illegal dumping] are spatially overdetermined,[linked to] economic, political, and ideological relations....Yet, in the final analysis, the consent that was found was attributable more to factors that are specific to this locality and location. The dissertation thus highlights an issue that Gramsci underemphasized, i.e. geography matters in the formation of consent».
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Hough, Richard William Stuart |
| Subjects |
Geografia Inquinamento
Egemonia All'Estero: Usa Brownsville Texas Studi di caso
Geography pollution
Hegemony Abroad, USA |
