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Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall / Miguel Díaz-Barriga, Margaret E. Dorsey

Díaz Barriga, Miguel [Verfasser] ; Dorsey, Margaret E.,i1973- [Verfasser]

Durham and London : Duke University Press, [2020]

xv, 178 Seiten

Global insecurities

The politics of bisection: a visual ethnography of rebordering and rajando -- Not walls, bridges: rituals of necrocitizenship -- Necrocitizenship enacted: raping white women and consolidating the State of exception -- Bleeding like the State: the open veins of Latin America -- Necrocitizenship kills

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online version: Dorsey, Margaret Ellen, 1973-. Fencing in democracy. - Durham : 2020.. - ISBN 9781478007470

978-1-4780-0693-0 ; 1-4780-0693-5 ; 978-1-4780-0605-3 ; 1-4780-0605-6 ; 9781478007470

LB 52595

 

USA  Mexiko  Grenzgebiet  Grenze  Illegaler Einwanderer  Politische Anthropologie  Sicherheitspolitik  Grenzschutz  Einwanderungspolitik  Migrationspolitik 

 

"FENCING IN DEMOCRACY is an ethnography examining groups that are usually left out of national discussions about the border wall: the communities living right on the border. Drawing on extensive primary research, the authors argue that a variety of factors, including media narratives, complex political maneuvering, and purposefully marginalizing discourse, have placed border communities in a state of necrocitizenship - a set of citizenship practices produced in response to exclusionary regimes that emphasize death. Throughout the book they show necrocitizenship as operating on three levels; the increasing militarization of border regions, the building of walls along international boundaries, and the privileging of the patriotic subject, one who is willing to die for one's country