Border optics: surveillance cultures on the US-Mexico frontier

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fojas, Camilla 1971- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York New York University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Online Access: Table of Contents (Aggregator)
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Keywords:
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
USA > Mexiko > Grenzpolizeiliche Kontrolle
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Summary: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.
"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"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 175-185 und Index
Physical Description:ix, 197 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:978-1-4798-0701-7
978-1-4798-0698-0