Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border - Couverture souple

Maher, Kristen Hill; Carruthers, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0197557201 ISBN 13 : 9780197557204

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2021

Synopsis

San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies. In Unequal Neighbors, Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers shift attention from the national border to a local one, examining the role of place stigma in reinforcing actual and imagined inequalities between these cities. Widespread "bordered imaginaries" in San Diego represent it as a place of economic vitality, safety, and order, while stigmatizing Tijuana as a zone of poverty, crime, and corruption. These dualisms misrepresent complex realities on the ground, but they also have real material effects: the vision of a local border benefits some actors in the region while undermining others.

Based on a wide range of original empirical materials, the book examines how asymmetries between these cities have been produced and reinforced through stigmatizing representations of Tijuana in media, everyday talk, economic relations, and local tourism discourse and practices. However, both place stigma and borders are subject to contestation, and the book also examines "debordering" practices and counter-narratives about Tijuana's image. While the details of the book are particular to this corner of the world, the kinds of processes it documents offer a window into the making of unequal neighbors more broadly. The dynamics at the Tijuana border present a framework for understanding how inequalities that manifest in cultural practices produce asymmetric borders between places.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kristen Hill Maher is Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University.

David Carruthers is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197557201
• ISBN 13: 9780197557204
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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