Forgotten Border Actors
The Border Reinforcers. A Comparison Between the U.S.–Mexico Border and South American Borders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12427339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanislav Shmelev (0000-0003-2103-0201, Universidad de Buenos Aires, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451 |
| Publisher | University of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2458/v9i1.21635 |
| OpenAlex | W2783666822 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article is a critique of two different types of essentialisms that have gained widespread acceptance in places as distant as the U.S.-Mexico border and different Mercosur frontiers. Both essentialisms rely on metaphors that refer to the concept of "union," and put their emphasis on a variety of "sisterhood/brotherhood" tropes and, in particular, the "crossing" metaphor. This kind of stance tends to make invisible the social and cultural conflict that many times characterizes political frontiers. The article wants to reinstall this conflictive dimension. In that regard, we analyze two different case studies. The first is the history of a bridge constructed between Posadas, Argentina and Encarnación, Paraguay. The second is the community reaction toward an operation implemented by the Border Patrolin 1993 ("OperationBlockade") in a border that for many years was considered an exemplar of the "good neighbor relationships" between Mexico and the United States, the frontier between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
Bridge (graph theory · Dimension (graph theory · Frontier · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
Becoming Mexican American
Culture & truth
Borderlands/La Frontera
Walls and Mirrors
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
Border Matters
Becoming Mexican American
The U.S.-Mexico Border
Border People
U.S. Immigration Officers of Mexican Ancestry as Mexican Americans, Citizens, and Immigration Police
Criticism in the Borderlands
The Mexico-United States Border in Anthropology
Mexican Brick Culture in the Building of Texas, 1800s-1980s
Border Visions
Border Boom Town
Mexican Brick Culture in the Building of Texas, 1800s-1980s
Border Visions
Baseball on the Border
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |