Schaeffer Unsettled Borders

The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2256-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten

Reihe: Dissident Acts

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized surveillance at the US-Mexico border across time and space as well as the efforts of Native peoples to continue ancestral practices in the face of ecological and social violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1
1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29
2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation 55
3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81
4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104
Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139
Notes 153
Bibliography 185
Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas, and coeditor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship.