{"product_id":"unsettled-borders-9781478017943","title":"Unsettled Borders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnsettled Borders\u003c\/i\u003e Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O’odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled “Optics Valley,” Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, ex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eUnsettled Borders\u003c\/i\u003e] includes an impressively documented bibliography. The text ultimately succeeds in telling a story of violence against Indigenous peoples and their cultures, perpetrated in the name of border security, and documenting the use of surveillance technology, which has permanently altered the landscape. Recommended.” -- G. Christensen * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnsettled Borders\u003c\/i\u003e makes an outstanding contribution to replacing some of the missing pieces while incorporating neocolonialism and interethnic borders into state border studies. Its author, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, builds a great basis for a problem that is gaining greater visibility, exposing an equal criminalization of migrant people and indigenous communities.\" -- Tania Porcaro * Journal of Borderlands Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"I loved the big picture and provocative ideas that expanded my own understanding of topics I have studied for many years. . . . The book centers Indigenous perspectives to demonstrate not only the contributions Indigenous science has made to (or rather, been appropriated by) the military-industrial\/border-security complex, but also the ways that Indigenous scholarship contributes to our understanding of this dynamic from a critical thinking perspective. The primary focus of the book is U.S. borders and Arizona features prominently therein, but the lessons go well beyond this geography as approaches to border security have become globalized.\" -- Kenneth D. Madsen * Indigenous Religious Traditions *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnsettled Borders\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and skillful analysis of military discourse, settler technoscience, and ethnographic materials primarily devoted to events in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, but with resonances across other settler colonial spaces (within and beyond the United States).\" -- Iván Chaar López * Postcolonial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant\/Native Embodiment  81\u003cbr\u003e 4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán  104\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples  139\u003cbr\u003e Notes  153\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  185\u003cbr\u003e Index  201\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409007255895,"sku":"9781478017943","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017943.jpg?v=1730505067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unsettled-borders-9781478017943","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}