Fencing in democracy
Miguel Díaz-Barriga · 2020
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"FENCING IN DEMOCRACY is an ethnography examining groups that are usually left out of national discussions about the border wall: the communities living right on the border. Drawing on extensive primary research, the authors argue that a variety of factors, including media narratives, complex political maneuvering, and purposefully marginalizing discourse, have placed border communities in a state of necrocitizenship - a set of citizenship practices produced in response to exclusionary regimes that emphasize death. Throughout the book they show necrocitizenship as operating on three levels; the increasing militarization of border regions, the building of walls along international boundaries, and the privileging of the patriotic subject, one who is willing to die for one's country"--
Book details
- Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Series
- Global insecurities
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 178
- ISBN
- 9781478006930
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