Anuarios Espacios Urbanos. Historia, Cultura, Diseño 2005 (1) Mexico 59-78 pp.Espacio urbano y ambiente
Metropolitan geopolitics of Mexico: the handling of the conflict in the enviroment in the national political changes and the water conflicting management
Felipe de Alba
Abstract
This article suggests some elements of reflection for a research work about the multiphased character of the general metropolitan conflict and also the water conflict. These conflicts and their relationship with the political regime crisis will be addressed within the context of the megalopolis of Mexico. Furthermore, it will be discussed the metropolitan conflict and its socioinstitutional character as wells as the decision - absence and inefficiency- regarding water publics policies matters.From an interdisciplinary standpoint, it is argued that the "state of things" in the metropolitan treatment of the conflict in general, the water conflict in particular and the changes in the Mexican political regime have played a central function. This situation has made of the metropolis a privileged space to try new agreements and new regulations, as well as imaginative analysis of the social actors. This exercise serves to support the idea that the metropolis is a new space in dispute, given the importance and projection in the elections of 2006 in Mexico. Mainly, the metropolis of México is also a political space in permanent question, subject to different pressures and to itself positioning as a new political actor which will fix some of the main rules in the configuration of the Mexican regime in the future.
Keywords: Political territory, decisional crisis, Mexico city
