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Border optics : surveillance cultures on the US-Mexico frontier / Camilla Fojas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fojas, Camilla, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Critical cultural communication.
- Critical cultural communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Border security--Social aspects--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Border security.
- Border patrols--Social aspects--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Border patrols.
- Video surveillance--Social aspects--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Video surveillance.
- United States--Boundaries--Mexico.
- United States.
- Mexico--Boundaries--United States.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- When Donald Trump promised to 'build a wall' on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualised a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to the border, imagining what the wall would look like came easily to most Americans, in part because of how images of the border are reproduced and circulated for national audiences. This book considers the US-Mexico border as one of the most visualised and imagined spaces in the US.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Border óptica, or seeing like a state
- Borderveillant media
- Drone futures : alien vs predator
- Wild border : surveillant ecologies
- Imperial border optics
- Coda: Border futures : seeing and foreseeing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-0706-0
- OCLC:
- 1250081440
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