Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Unsettled Borders

The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land

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Produktbeschreibung

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized surveillance at the US-Mexico border across time and space as well as the efforts of Native peoples to continue ancestral practices in the face of ecological and social violence.

Produktdetails

• Dissident Acts
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017943
• ISBN-10: 1478017945
• Artikelnr.: 62068036

Autorenporträt

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas, and coeditor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations
with Land  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled
Borders  1
1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military
Innovation during the Apache Wars  29
2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham
Reservation  55
3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of
Migrant/Native Embodiment  81
4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence
of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán  104
Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous
Peoples  139
Notes  153
Bibliography  185
Index  201