Border 2012
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Author | : Krista Schlyer |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603447571 |
The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall's effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall's effect on animals? Krista Schlyer vividly shows us that this largely isolated natural area, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, is also host to a number of rare ecosystems.
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Aliens |
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Author | : Rachel St. John |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2011-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400838630 |
The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico border Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
Author | : Erik Lee |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : 0925613533 |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Author | : Reece Jones |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1848138261 |
*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.
Author | : Christopher A. Erickson |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Air |
ISBN | : 9780925613455 |
Author | : Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816514632 |
The U.S.-Mexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. And yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Juárez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation. Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem. Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections between, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence, the micro-social effects of economic models, the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations, and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence.
Author | : Ross Pumfrey |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Air |
ISBN | : 9780925613509 |