Cover; Contents; Introduction; I. History, Affect, Representation; 1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies; 2. The Materiality of Affect; 3. Bearing Witness; II. Sex, Labor, Movement; 4. Open Secrets; 5. The Value of a Second Skin; 6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice; 7. The North-South Encuentros; III. The Utopian Question; 8. Love in the Common; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
Fires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing-its "affect-culture"--Mexico's northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause