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Author |
: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2022-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478022565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478022566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsettled Borders by : Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O’odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled “Optics Valley,” Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, extraction, and occupation.
Author |
: Toby J. Rider |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2021-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108840347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108840345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Dangerous Ground by : Toby J. Rider
An analysis of international border settlement and the lifecycle of geopolitical rivalries that arise when settlement fails. Readers - whether interested in political science, international relations, international conflict, global studies, international law, or geography - will find it relevant to contemporary conflicts and how to manage them.
Author |
: Bill Hubbard |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2008-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226355931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226355934 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Boundaries by : Bill Hubbard
For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marveled at the vast grid spreading out in all directions below, American Boundaries will yield a welcome treasure trove of insight. The first book to chart the country’s growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard’s masterly narrative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be held in trust for the common benefit of the people. Hubbard goes on to show—with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps—how the notion evolved that unsettled land should be divided into rectangles and sold to individual farmers, and how this rectangular survey spread outward from its origins in Ohio, with surveyors drawing straight lines across the face of the continent. Mapping how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, American Boundaries will provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.
Author |
: Kate Harris |
Publisher |
: Knopf Canada |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2018-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345816795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 034581679X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lands of Lost Borders by : Kate Harris
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile." As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.
Author |
: Monica Hanna |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2019-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781978803152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 197880315X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Border Cinema by : Monica Hanna
The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.
Author |
: Ila Nicole Sheren |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2015-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781477302286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147730228X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portable Borders by : Ila Nicole Sheren
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century. Particularly in the world of visual art, borders have come to represent a space of performance rather than a geographical boundary, a cultural terrain meant to be negotiated rather than a physical line. From 1980 forward, Sheren argues, the border became portable through performance and conceptual work. This dematerialization of the physical border after the 1980s worked in two opposite directions—the movement of border thinking to the rest of the world, as well as the importation of ideas to the border itself. Beginning with site-specific conceptual artwork of the 1980s, particularly the performances of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, Sheren shows how these works reconfigured the border as an active site. Sheren moves on to examine artists such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, and Marcos Ramirez “ERRE.” Although Sheren places emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, this groundbreaking book suggests possibilities for the expansion of the concept of portability to contemporary art projects beyond the region.
Author |
: Andy Butterworth |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 625 |
Release |
: 2017-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319469942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319469940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marine Mammal Welfare by : Andy Butterworth
Marine mammals attract human interest – sometimes this interest is benign or positive – whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals. However, there are many forces operating to affect adversely the lives of whales, seals, manatees, otters and polar bears – and this book explores how the welfare of marine mammals has been affected and how they have adapted, moved, responded and sometimes suffered as a result of the changing marine and human world around them. Marine mammal welfare addresses the welfare effects of marine debris, of human traffic in the oceans, of noise, of hunting, of whale watching and tourism, and of some of the less obvious impacts on marine mammals – on their social structures, on their behaviours and migration, and also of the effects on captivity for animals kept in zoos and aquaria. There is much to think and talk about – how marine mammals respond in a world dramatically influenced by man, how are their social structures affected and how is their welfare impacted?
Author |
: Todd Miller |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2019-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784785116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784785113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire of Borders by : Todd Miller
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those whose movements are restricted. But that is only part of the story. As journalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources, training, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield, enforcing the division between Global South and North. The highly publicized focus on a wall between the United States and Mexico misses the bigger picture of strengthening border enforcement around the world. Empire of Borders is a tremendous work of narrative investigative journalism that traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows, once again, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations. In Syria, Guatemala, Kenya, Palestine, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.
Author |
: Klaus Dodds |
Publisher |
: Diversion Books |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2021-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635769067 |
ISBN-13 |
: 163576906X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Border Wars by : Klaus Dodds
An enlightening look at contemporary border tensions—from the Gaza Strip to the space race—by one of the world’s leading experts in geopolitics. Border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border walls both literal and figurative. In the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere, the tension inherent to trying to divide the world into separate parcels has not gone away. And with climate change shifting our natural borders, from mountains to glaciers to rivers, the question of how we live in a world that’s becoming warmer and wetter and growing in population looms large. With wide-ranging insight and provocative analysis, Dodds shows why we are more likely to see more walls, barriers, and securitization in our daily lives. The New Border Wars examines just what borders truly mean in the modern world: How are they built; what do they signify for citizens and governments; and how do they help us understand our political past and, most importantly, our diplomatic future?
Author |
: Alexander C. Diener |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2012-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199731503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199731500 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Borders: A Very Short Introduction by : Alexander C. Diener
'Borders' offers insights into the form and function of historical and contemporary political and social boundaries. The authors show how and why borders will undoubtedly remain controversial topics and at the forefront of global headlines for years to come.