Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall
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Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall
（Global insecurities）
Duke University Press, 2020
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Fencing in democracy : border walls, necrocitizenship, and the security state
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-170) and index
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Description
Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Diaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U.S.-Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland Security and observed the political protests and legal challenges that residents mounted in opposition to the wall. In Fencing in Democracy Dorsey and Diaz-Barriga take us to those border communities most affected by the wall and often ignored in national discussions about border security to highlight how the state diminishes citizens' rights. That dynamic speaks to the citizenship experiences of border residents that is indicative of how walls imprison the populations they are built to protect. Dorsey and Diaz-Barriga brilliantly expand conversations about citizenship, the operation of U.S. power, and the implications of border walls for the future of democracy.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Politics of Bisection: A Visual Ethnography of Rebordering and Rajando 15
2. Not Walls, Bridges: Rituals of Necrocitizenship 49
3. Necrocitizenship Enacted: Raping White Women and Consolidating the State of Exception 79
4. Bleeding like the State: The Open Veins of Latin America 108
5. Necrocitizenship Kills 118
Conclusion 135
Epilogue 141
Notes 145
References 159
Index 171
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