Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity

Intersections of Repression and Resistance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of “borders.” The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While immigration is the common mental image Westerners have when discussing borders, immigration is only the tip of the iceberg for this book. The belief in mutually exclusive, clear, and concrete categories creates large swathes of exceptions where people live ambiguous lives nationally, racially, sexually, ethnically, and in terms of gender.Identity is discussed in the book through the lens of borders and ambiguity. The fervor over categorization, best embodied in recent political history by the Trump administration in the United States, is both a desire to identify and control “dangerous” populations, but also creates the very ambiguity categorization is intended to alleviate. The volume weaves together discussions on the subjective meaning-making in ambiguity, policies that create ambiguity, historical creations of ambiguity that persist to the present, and theoretical considerations on the relationship between borders and ambiguity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-07
Mått:161 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498580991

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

B. Garrick Hardenis associate professor of sociology at Lamar University.

Recensioner i media

What I especially appreciate about this timely assemblage is that it brings together various and varied cross-disciplinary approaches/perspectives to bear on the effects of borders, categories, categorizations—material and imaginary. These are thought-provoking, critical, not predictable interventions.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionB. Garrick HardenChapter 1: A Note on How Historical Patterns of American Ideology Led to President IcarusB. Garrick HardenChapter 2: Alie(N)ation: A Qualitative Multi-Method Approach to Language, Domination, and Unauthorized MigrationHilario Molina II and Robert F. CarleyChapter 3: Incest Rhetorics and Queerphobic Sex PanicsIan BarnardChapter 4: A Queer Marxian Analysis of the Construction of Race in the USG. Dillon Nicholson and B. Garrick HardenChapter 5: THE KEYS FOR LOCKS: Border Queers/Queer Borders or Community and Possibilities for IdentityRyan Ashley CaldwellChapter 6: Refusing to Decompose: How Cyber-ojo Makes Indigenous Rituals Palatable to Modern SocietyHilario Molina IIChapter 7: U.S.-Mexico Border Control: The Use of Deportation Threats as a Method of Enforcing Control on Residents in South TexasEric GaminoChapter 8: U.S. Immigration Enforcement by Proxy: The Making of a New South-to-South Border between Mexico and Central AmericaJuan José BustamanteChapter 9: Unauthorized Latino/a Migration in an Era of Global Displacement: A Mixed Methods and World-Systems PerspectiveHilario Molina IIChapter 10: Assessing Assimilation in the Borderlands: How Rapidly Do Mexican Americans Assimilate?Jesús A. Garcia, Chad Richardson, Rogelio Saenz, and Dejun SuReferences