Title Savage frontier : making news and security on the Argentine border / Ieva Jusionyte

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, map Contents Introduction : hide-and-seek -- Breaking the code of silence -- Dispatches from the wild -- Global village of outlaws -- Small town, big hell -- On and off the record -- Blurred boundaries -- Conclusion : ethnography of in/visibility Summary "This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism in order to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The Triple Frontera is one of the major 'hot borders' in the Western Hemisphere and a site associated with drug and human trafficking, contraband, money laundering, and terrorism. It's also a place where residents, particularly on the Argentine side, are subjected to increased governmental control and surveillance. Jusionyte has inventively centered her ethnographic fieldwork on a community of journalists who investigate and report on crime and violence in the region. There is a fair amount of petty, small-scale illicit trading that goes unreported--this is a consequence of a community invested in promoting the idea that the border is a secure place that does not warrant militarized attention. Her work demonstrates that while media is often seen as a powerful tool for spreading a sense of danger and uncertainty, sensationalizing crime and violence, and creating moral panics, journalists can actually do the opposite. Those who selectively report on illegal activities use the news to tell particular types of stories in an attempt to make their communities look and ultimately be more secure"--Provided by publisher Analysis anthropology argentina border region border security brazil civic contraband crime danger diplomacy drug trafficking drug ethnographic research fieldwork governmental militarization hot borders human trafficking illegal increased governmental control international trade investigative journalism military money laundering money moral panics national security paraguay security studies security south american surveillance terrorism triple frontera uncertainty violence western hemisphere Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Crime -- Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) Crime -- Press coverage -- Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) Security, International -- Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) Border security -- Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Border security Crime Crime and the press Security, International South America -- Tri-Border Area Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520959378 052095937X 0520286472 9780520286474

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