{"product_id":"fencing-in-democracy-9781478006930","title":"Fencing in Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorder walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U.S.-Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland Security and observed the political protests and legal challenges that residents mounted in opposition to the wall. In \u003ci\u003eFencing in Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga take us to those border communities most affected by the wall and often ignored in national discussions about border security to highlight how the state diminishes citizens'' rights. That dynamic speaks to the citizenship experiences of border residents that is indicative of how walls imprison the populations they are built to protect. Dorsey and Díaz-B\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey's argument that the role of the state in fomenting violence remains unrecognized and depoliticized is powerful and utterly convincing. With its superior scholarship and compelling ethnographic material, \u003ci\u003eFencing in Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e will garner interest from scholars and the public alike.” -- Patricia Zavella, author of * I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty *\u003cbr\u003e“Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey deliver a groundbreaking exposé of the distorted logics, policies, and politics that underpin the construction of border walls. Focusing on the US-Mexico border wall, \u003ci\u003eFencing in Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply thoughtful and thoroughly researched investigation that reveals the backstories behind ever-expanding processes of securitization and militarization, and the death and destruction that result. Not for the fainthearted, this book is for concerned citizens of the world looking to comprehend what the popular media and powerful politicians distort and a wake-up call about what gets destroyed in the name of safety.” -- Alisse Waterston, author of * My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century *\u003cbr\u003e“This work is provocative.... Given the global rise of authoritarian rule coupled with the imposition of walls of exclusion, \u003ci\u003eFencing in Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest globally to general publics and students across the social sciences.” -- Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eFencing in Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e] is an extremely valuable study of the local dynamics and resistance to the federal and state multilayered border enforcement machine and propaganda.” -- Timothy Dunn * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Politics of Bisection: A Visual Ethnography of Rebordering and \u003ci\u003eRajando\u003c\/i\u003e  15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Not Walls, Bridges: Rituals of Necrocitizenship  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Necrocitizenship Enacted: Raping White Women and Consolidating the State of Exception  79\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bleeding like the State: The Open Veins of Latin America  108\u003cbr\u003e 5. Necrocitizenship Kills  118\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  135\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  141\u003cbr\u003e Notes  145\u003cbr\u003e References  159\u003cbr\u003e Index  171","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408981172567,"sku":"9781478006930","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006930.jpg?v=1730504954","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fencing-in-democracy-9781478006930","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}