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1	Across Papagueria: Copper, Conservation, and Boundary Security in the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands January 2015 (has links) abstract: Since the late 1990s thousands of new Border Patrol agents, hundreds of miles of fencing, and additional immigration checkpoints have been added to the Mexico-U.S. border region. This unprecedented increase in boundary enforcement has strained existing relationships and created new separations between people and places in the borderlands. Southwestern Arizona has been impacted in especially dramatic ways, as the “hardening” of the international boundary has transformed conservation and indigenous spaces into theaters of drug interdiction and immigration control. This dissertation explores this transformation in southwestern Arizona, a region that was known by Spanish Colonial administrators as the Papaguería. With the community of Ajo at the center of the narrative, this dissertation explores the ways that industry and conservation have long shaped the social relations and the landscape of the region. The destruction of old borders, the creation of new borders, and the redefinition of space has been an ongoing process that continues to define some groups of people as insiders and other groups as outsiders. In the current era of border security echoes from earlier colonial encounters reverberate into the present, shaping landscapes and the lives of local residents in the contemporary Papaguería in significant ways. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Geography 2015 Geography History Cultural anthropology Ajo Arizona Immigration Mexico-U.S. Border Papagueria Tohono O'odham
2	Internalizing Borderlands: the Performance of Borderlands Identity De Roover, Megan 02 January 2013 (has links) In order to establish a working understanding of borders, the critical conversation must be conscious of how the border is being used politically, theoretically, and socially. This thesis focuses on the border as forcibly ensuring the performance of identity as individuals, within the context of borderlands, become embodiments of the border, and their performance of identity is created by the influence of external borders that become internalized. The internalized border can be read both as infection, a problematic divide needing to be removed, as well as an opportunity for bridging, crossing that divide. I bring together Charles Bowden (Blue Desert), Monique Mojica (Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots), Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead), and Guillermo Verdecchia (Fronteras Americanas) in order to develop a comprehensive analysis of the border and border identity development. In these texts, individuals are forced to negotiate their sense of self according to pre-existing cultural and social expectations on either side of the border, performing identity according to how they want to be socially perceived. The result can often be read as a fragmentation of identity, a discrepancy between how the individual feels and how they are read. I examine how identity performance occurs within the context of the border, brought on by violence and exemplified through the division between the spirit world and the material world, the manipulation of costuming and uniforms, and the body. / Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award). Borders Borderlands Indigeneity Chicano/a Identity Performance Transcultural Cultural Studies Violence Tricksters Witches Shaman Storytellers Costuming Uniforms Border Patrol Mexico/U.S. Trauma The Body Ideology Gloria Anzaldua Monique Mojica Guillermo Verdecchia Leslie Marmon Silko Charles Bowden Internalizing the Border

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Across Papagueria: Copper, Conservation, and Boundary Security in the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands

Internalizing Borderlands: the Performance of Borderlands Identity