Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative - Couverture souple

Hernández, Roberto D.

 
9780816540396: Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative
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ISBN 10 : 081654039X ISBN 13 : 9780816540396
Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2019

Synopsis

National borders are often taken for granted as normal and necessary for a peaceful and orderly global civil society. Roberto D. Hernández here advances a provocative argument that borders--and border violence--are geospatial manifestations of long histories of racialized and gendered colonial violence.

In Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border, Hernández offers an exemplary case and lens for understanding what he terms the "epistemic and cartographic prison of modernity/coloniality." He adopts "coloniality of power" as a central analytical category and framework to consider multiple forms of real and symbolic violence (territorial, corporeal, cultural, and epistemic) and analyzes the varied responses by diverse actors, including local residents, government officials, and cultural producers.

Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San Diego-Tijuana and El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, this book is an interdisciplinary examination that considers the 1984 McDonald's massacre, Minutemen vigilantism, border urbanism, the ongoing murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and anti-border music.

Hernández's approach is at once historical, ethnographic, and theoretically driven, yet it is grounded in analyses and debates that cut across political theory, border studies, and cultural studies. The volume concludes with a theoretical discussion of the future of violence at--and because of--­national territorial borders, offering a call for epistemic and cartographic disobedience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roberto D. Hernández is an associate professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University, where he teaches comparative border studies and decolonial theory. He co-edited Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without.

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Éditeur
University of Arizona Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081654039X
ISBN 13 
9780816540396
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780816537198: Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative

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ISBN 10 :  0816537194 ISBN 13 :  9780816537198
Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2018
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