Fencing in democracy
Subtitle: necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall
By: Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey
Contributors: Dorsey, Margaret E. (Margaret Ellen), 1973- author; Duke University Press
Series: Global insecurities; Global insecurities
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781478006930; 9781478006053; 9781478007470
Subjects: Boundaries; Grenze; Social aspects; Migrationspolitik; Sicherheitspolitik; Politische Anthropologie; Ethnic relations; Illegaler Einwanderer; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Grenzschutz; Einwanderungspolitik; Grenzgebiet; Emigration and immigration; Political aspects; University of South Alabama
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of bisection: a visual ethnography of rebordering and rajando; title: Not walls, bridges: rituals of necrocitizenship; title: Necrocitizenship enacted: raping white women and consolidating the State of exception; title: Bleeding like the State: the open veins of Latin America; title: Necrocitizenship kills.