Photo by author showing an irrigation ditch in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas
Flood Justice en las Fronteras
Flood Justice en las Fronteras is a bilingual/binational podcast focusing on the injustice of flood vulnerability in the US-Mexico Borderlands. find the podcast episodes below or on the Journal of the Southwest Radio website.
this is a digital humanities project funded by the University of Arizona’s Mellon Fronteridades grant and the Tinker Foundation.
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In the first episode I discuss green infrastructure, equitable policy, and flood vulnerability in the border cities of Ambos Nogales with Dr. Adriana Zúñiga-Terán. Find the episode here (para encontrar el episodio en español, desplácese hacia abajo).
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In the second episode I discuss US-Mexico border relations, the more-than-human agency of the Rio Bravo/Rio river and the politicized use of flood vulnerability for border security in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Delta with Dr. Xavier Oliveras Gonzalez. Find the episode here (para encontrar el episodio en español, desplácese hacia abajo).
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In the third episode I discuss the politics of the 1954 Falcon Dam (Presa Falcón) in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo river with Dr. Caroline Tracey. This dam provided irrigation water and hydro-electricity to both Texas and Tamaulipas, yet flooded and displaced thousands of border residents. Find the episode here (para encontrar el episodio en español, desplácese hacia abajo).
Photo by author; some roads in Nogales, Sonora are paved rivers, leading to the deaths of flooded drivers.
Flood Justice in Ambos Nogales
In these clips I interview Dr. Adriana Zuniga-Teran about the inequity of flood vulnerability in the Ambos Nogales region of Southern Arizona/Northern Sonora.
