The wall and the wash: Security,infrastructure and rescue on the US‐Mexico border |
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| Authors: | Ieva Jusionyte |
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| Affiliation: | Assistant professor of anthropology and social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Savage frontier: Making news and security on the Argentine border (UC Press 2015) and Threshold: Emergency and rescue on the US‐Mexico border (forthcoming in 2018). |
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| Abstract: | Based on ethnographic research with firefighters trained as EMTs (emergency medical technicians) or paramedics in northern Sonora and southern Arizona, this article takes the vantage point of emergency responders on both sides of the US‐Mexico border to trace the harmful effects of the security assemblage on those who inhabit and trespass this militarized landscape. Interested in the materiality of security – how its discursive and affective qualities are anchored in urban and desert terrain by means of infrastructure and technology – this article focuses on two such ‘anchors’, the wall and the wash, in order to address the legal and ethical issues that result from the deployment of tactical infrastructure on the border. |
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