Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall /

Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Díaz-Barriga, Miguel, 1960- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Description:	xv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global insecurities Global insecurities.
Subject:	Boundaries. Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. Social aspects. Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Mexican-American Border Region -- Political aspects. Mexican-American Border Region -- Social aspects. Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico. Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States. Mexico. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12023991

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Other authors / contributors:	Dorsey, Margaret E. (Margaret Ellen), 1973- author.
ISBN:	9781478006930 1478006935 9781478006053 1478006056 9781478007470
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Dorsey, Margaret Ellen, 1973- Fencing in democracy Durham : 2020. 9781478007470

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Politics of Bisection: A Visual Ethnography of Rebordering and Rajando
2. Not Walls, Bridges: Rituals of Necrocitizenship
3. Necrocitizenship Enacted: Raping White Women and Consolidating the State of Exception
4. Bleeding like the State: The Open Veins of Latin America
5. Necrocitizenship Kills
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index