Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall /
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 politic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Global insecurities.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478006930 1478006935 9781478006053 1478006056 |