Border optics : surveillance cultures on the US-Mexico frontier /

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"This book argues that the U.S.-Mexico border is both a laboratory and an archive that indexes an optical regime and a way of seeing that combines fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fojas, Camilla, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Series:Critical cultural communication.
Subjects:
Border security > Social aspects > Mexican-American Border Region.
Border patrols > Social aspects > Mexican-American Border Region.
Video surveillance > Social aspects > Mexican-American Border Region.
Sécurité frontalière > Aspect social > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Police de la frontière > Aspect social > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Vidéosurveillance > Aspect social > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Border security > Social aspects.
Boundaries.
United States > Boundaries > Mexico.
Mexico > Boundaries > United States.
États-Unis > Frontières > Mexique.
Mexico.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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