This paper draws attention to the intimate frontiers of geopolitics to analyze how quotidian political boundaries are delineated and disputed through mundane discursive practices. My empirical focus is the USA-Mexico borderlands wherein US citizens frequently encounter material evidence of undocumented immigrants and their (unauthorized) border crossings. The materials encountered include identity documents and personal mementos as well as objects needed for survival like water bottles, backpacks, medication, shoes, and clothes. Close encounters with these intimate objects, I argue, have become primary sites wherein everyday framings of belonging are constituted in the borderlands. Drawing on field research in Arizona, I illustrate how cult...
With the creation of our “modern world” came the ideology and system of nation-states. Land in its m...
By recognizing the improvement in geographies of extraction about territories that used to be consid...
Material culture is the aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by or discarded by a past cu...
Borderland building items' description and its discursive analysis, watching what their local media ...
This dissertation examines contemporary United States border policy, which disregards the lives of b...
This dissertation examines the role of affect and emotion in contemporary citizenship practices alon...
The US-Mexico border has been defined as a periphery, as a transborder social system, and more curre...
This article analyzes the effects of the Mexico-United States geopolitical border in social and cult...
Current human migrations and nonhuman extinctions on massive scales compel us to more carefully appl...
In a context of political controversy around migration and border issues in the United States, the f...
This article is a theoretical analysis on the deterritorialization and reterritorialization processe...
This dissertation revisits the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to examine its neoliberal transformation inte...
Las zonas fronterizas, es decir los espacios geopolíticos que delimitan el territorio de un país, so...
During the heydays of sovereignty we have studied the borders from a state-centric perspective. Toda...
This dissertation explores questions of global and diasporic process, and the physical and imagined ...
With the creation of our “modern world” came the ideology and system of nation-states. Land in its m...
By recognizing the improvement in geographies of extraction about territories that used to be consid...
Material culture is the aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by or discarded by a past cu...
Borderland building items' description and its discursive analysis, watching what their local media ...
This dissertation examines contemporary United States border policy, which disregards the lives of b...
This dissertation examines the role of affect and emotion in contemporary citizenship practices alon...
The US-Mexico border has been defined as a periphery, as a transborder social system, and more curre...
This article analyzes the effects of the Mexico-United States geopolitical border in social and cult...
Current human migrations and nonhuman extinctions on massive scales compel us to more carefully appl...
In a context of political controversy around migration and border issues in the United States, the f...
This article is a theoretical analysis on the deterritorialization and reterritorialization processe...
This dissertation revisits the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to examine its neoliberal transformation inte...
Las zonas fronterizas, es decir los espacios geopolíticos que delimitan el territorio de un país, so...
During the heydays of sovereignty we have studied the borders from a state-centric perspective. Toda...
This dissertation explores questions of global and diasporic process, and the physical and imagined ...
With the creation of our “modern world” came the ideology and system of nation-states. Land in its m...
By recognizing the improvement in geographies of extraction about territories that used to be consid...
Material culture is the aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by or discarded by a past cu...