Building Walls, Destroying Borderlands

Repertoires of Militarization on the United States–Mexico Border

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15445296
AutoresJennifer G Correa (0000-0001-8756-1668, Texas A&M University – San Antonio, autor correspondente), Joseph M Simpson (0000-0001-5172-3004, Texas A&M University – San Antonio)
Ano2022
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas1-25
Data de publicação2022-02-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/nc.2022.170101
OpenAlexW4210517407
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4

Checkpoints, barriers, surveillance technologies, and military-police enforcement constitute the current stage of militarization on the United States–Mexico border. Previous literature in environmental sociology and United States–Mexico border studies overlooks how militarization ravages communities through its environmental disruptions. Our aim is to identify what we describe as repertoires of militarization used by the state to facilitate militarized buildup and exacerbate environmental degradation in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). We use ethnographic methods, document analysis, and participant observation to reveal three interrelated repertoires that threaten the environment and the peoples who inhabit it—a violation of international treaties, a waiving of environmental laws, and expansionary law enforcement powers

Criminology · Enforcement · Ethnography · Geography · Law enforcement · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses