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

Published New York : New York University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations (black and white) Series Critical cultural communication Critical cultural communication. 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Notes Online resource; title from pdf title page (Ebsco, viewed June 17, 2021) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index Subject Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region Border patrols -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region Video surveillance -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. Border security -- Social aspects Boundaries SUBJECT United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139917 Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084541 Subject Mexico North America -- Mexican-American Border Region United States Form Electronic book ISBN 1479807060 9781479807062

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