Squaring the circle: Agricultural intensification vs. water conservation in Morocco
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2017.07.009
Abstract: Drip irrigation is widely promoted as a means of saving water. In Morocco, where the current annual overdraft of aquifers is around 1 billion m3, drip has been promoted, with subsidies as high as 100%,… read more here.
Keywords: intensification water; water; morocco; squaring circle ... See more keywords
Squaring the Circle: The Violence of Environmental Form in the Colonial Caribbean
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DOI: 10.1215/07990537-12022316
Abstract: Abstract:This essay is grounded in the unsolved early modern mathematical problem of “squaring the circle” to explore geometrical form as a force that undergirded colonial violence in the Caribbean. In the mid-eighteenth century, rectilinearity and… read more here.
Keywords: caribbean; squaring circle; violence; circle violence ... See more keywords