I Jusionyte
Biographic Data
| ID | 18283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Jusionyte |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Jusionyte |
| SIGNATURE | JUSIONYTE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-7881-4989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Guns and gun violence (part 1)—global perspectives: AE interviews Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira
Gun violence is widespread around the globe, but the messages conveyed by its various manifestations, as well as by guns themselves, are deeply specific, both socially and historically. In this interview, Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira discuss their research on gun violence in the US, Mexico, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Recalling their own experiences with firearms—carrying them, firing them, and being thre…
Violence Exchange
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
"Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse."— Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants wh…
While the City Sleeps: A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón - by Caimari, Lila M
"Called to "Ankle Alley: Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US-Mexico Border
In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerous routes through the desert. Using data collected during ethnographic research between 2015 and 2017 with firefighters trained as EMTs or paramedics, the article shows how Border Patrol's tactical infrastructure produces specific patterns of traumatic…
The wall and the wash: Security, infrastructure and rescue on the US-Mexico border
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 qual…
In/visible--In/secure
In the introduction to this theme section we attempt to disentangle the webs of in/visibility and in/security by tracing out their diverse iterations. We construct a series of conversations between two of the four key terms relevant to this discussion-security and insecurity, visibility and invisibility-as a means of analyzing the different ways in which their various articulations engage meaningfully in the production and reproduction of contemp…
Crimecraft: Journalists, police, and news publics in an Argentine town
Crime narratives emerge from a collaborative process that involves diverse social groups across different locales. This diffused production of stories is captured by the concept of crimecraft, which helps illuminate the relationship among news media, organized crime, and police violence in postdictatorship Argentina. There, news makers must creatively maneuver between official reports and public secrets by shifting the story's authorship from the…
Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
Making news on Argentina's border with Brazil and Paraguay is tightly linked to security. While international political and media narratives since 9/11 have established this region as a haven of organized crime, for local residents, security is embedded in their daily social and economic realities. Drawing on the experiences of journalists who live and work in an allegedly dangerous South American region and on a personal account of collaborating…
Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
States of Camouflage
Focusing on a story of former firefighters who used a counterfeit rescue vehicle to perform a false emergency as a cover-up for drug trafficking in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, this article engages the concept of camouflage to intervene in anthropological discussions on statecraft. The article explores how drug traffickers-but also gendarmes, prefects, and customs officers, who help smugglers by accepting bribes-use the…
"For Social Emergencies "We Are 9-1-1: How Journalists Perform the State in an Argentine Border Town
This article focuses on Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, where the local media create a patchwork of substitute social services that form the basis of governance. More than 1,200 kilometers away from the federal capital, Iguazú was historically neglected by the central government: water shortages, power cuts, natural gas and fuel scarcity, impassable roads, and squatter settlements contributed to infrastructural col…
Enforcing order. An ethnography of urban policingby Fassin, Didier
On and Off the Record: The Production of Legitimacy in an Argentine Border Town
Based on ethnographic research in Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, this article explores how journalists maneuver between stories for, on, and off the record to maintain a locally valid boundary between law and crime. Journalists occupy a multifaceted position in the Iguazú community: as residents, they often participate in the informal circulation of legal and illegal goods across the border; as cultural producers,…
States of Camouflage
Focusing on a story of former firefighters who used a counterfeit rescue vehicle to perform a false emergency as a cover-up for drug trafficking in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, this article engages the concept of camouflage to intervene in anthropological discussions on statecraft. The article explores how drug traffickers-but also gendarmes, prefects, and customs officers, who help smugglers by accepting bribes-use the…
"Called to "Ankle Alley: Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US-Mexico Border
In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerous routes through the desert. Using data collected during ethnographic research between 2015 and 2017 with firefighters trained as EMTs or paramedics, the article shows how Border Patrol's tactical infrastructure produces specific patterns of traumatic…
In/visible--In/secure
In the introduction to this theme section we attempt to disentangle the webs of in/visibility and in/security by tracing out their diverse iterations. We construct a series of conversations between two of the four key terms relevant to this discussion-security and insecurity, visibility and invisibility-as a means of analyzing the different ways in which their various articulations engage meaningfully in the production and reproduction of contemp…
Crimecraft: Journalists, police, and news publics in an Argentine town
Crime narratives emerge from a collaborative process that involves diverse social groups across different locales. This diffused production of stories is captured by the concept of crimecraft, which helps illuminate the relationship among news media, organized crime, and police violence in postdictatorship Argentina. There, news makers must creatively maneuver between official reports and public secrets by shifting the story's authorship from the…
"For Social Emergencies "We Are 9-1-1: How Journalists Perform the State in an Argentine Border Town
This article focuses on Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, where the local media create a patchwork of substitute social services that form the basis of governance. More than 1,200 kilometers away from the federal capital, Iguazú was historically neglected by the central government: water shortages, power cuts, natural gas and fuel scarcity, impassable roads, and squatter settlements contributed to infrastructural col…
On and Off the Record: The Production of Legitimacy in an Argentine Border Town
Based on ethnographic research in Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, this article explores how journalists maneuver between stories for, on, and off the record to maintain a locally valid boundary between law and crime. Journalists occupy a multifaceted position in the Iguazú community: as residents, they often participate in the informal circulation of legal and illegal goods across the border; as cultural producers,…
"For Social Emergencies "We Are 9-1-1: How Journalists Perform the State in an Argentine Border Town
This article focuses on Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, where the local media create a patchwork of substitute social services that form the basis of governance. More than 1,200 kilometers away from the federal capital, Iguazú was historically neglected by the central government: water shortages, power cuts, natural gas and fuel scarcity, impassable roads, and squatter settlements contributed to infrastructural col…
Enforcing order. An ethnography of urban policingby Fassin, Didier
Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
Making news on Argentina's border with Brazil and Paraguay is tightly linked to security. While international political and media narratives since 9/11 have established this region as a haven of organized crime, for local residents, security is embedded in their daily social and economic realities. Drawing on the experiences of journalists who live and work in an allegedly dangerous South American region and on a personal account of collaborating…
Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
States of Camouflage
Focusing on a story of former firefighters who used a counterfeit rescue vehicle to perform a false emergency as a cover-up for drug trafficking in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, this article engages the concept of camouflage to intervene in anthropological discussions on statecraft. The article explores how drug traffickers-but also gendarmes, prefects, and customs officers, who help smugglers by accepting bribes-use the…
In/visible--In/secure
In the introduction to this theme section we attempt to disentangle the webs of in/visibility and in/security by tracing out their diverse iterations. We construct a series of conversations between two of the four key terms relevant to this discussion-security and insecurity, visibility and invisibility-as a means of analyzing the different ways in which their various articulations engage meaningfully in the production and reproduction of contemp…
Crimecraft: Journalists, police, and news publics in an Argentine town
Crime narratives emerge from a collaborative process that involves diverse social groups across different locales. This diffused production of stories is captured by the concept of crimecraft, which helps illuminate the relationship among news media, organized crime, and police violence in postdictatorship Argentina. There, news makers must creatively maneuver between official reports and public secrets by shifting the story's authorship from the…
The wall and the wash: Security, infrastructure and rescue on the US-Mexico border
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 qual…
"Called to "Ankle Alley: Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US-Mexico Border
In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerous routes through the desert. Using data collected during ethnographic research between 2015 and 2017 with firefighters trained as EMTs or paramedics, the article shows how Border Patrol's tactical infrastructure produces specific patterns of traumatic…
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
"Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse."— Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants wh…
While the City Sleeps: A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón - by Caimari, Lila M
Violence Exchange
Guns and gun violence (part 1)—global perspectives: AE interviews Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira
Gun violence is widespread around the globe, but the messages conveyed by its various manifestations, as well as by guns themselves, are deeply specific, both socially and historically. In this interview, Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira discuss their research on gun violence in the US, Mexico, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Recalling their own experiences with firearms—carrying them, firing them, and being thre…
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