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Author:
Fojas, Camilla, 1971- author.
Title:
Border optics : surveillance cultures on the US-Mexico frontier / Camilla Fojas.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021]
Description:
ix, 197 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
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.
United States--Boundaries--Mexico.
Mexico--Boundaries--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Border security--Social aspects.
Boundaries.
Mexico.
North America--Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Border optica, 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.
Series:
Critical cultural communication
ISBN:
147980701X
9781479807017
1479806986
9781479806980
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1201178567
LCCN:
2020055450
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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