Drift Alignment
Astronomy, Celestial Navigation, and the Us-Mexico Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919598 |
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| Authors | Andrew O’Brien (0000-0003-0225-9211, Andrews University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 75-86 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0763 • E-ISSN: 1754-0771 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17540763.2023.2269393 |
| OpenAlex | W4392235616 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Drift Alignment is an ongoing body of work that engages the complex and contested history of the US-Mexico border through the practices of astrophotography and celestial navigation. My primary motivation for this work has been an examination of both the material and ideological conditions that led to the formation of the border, as well as its lasting relationship with colonialism, and the tragic consequences of immigration enforcement. Throughout the series, works oscillate between attempts at precision and its inverse — both subjective experience and mathematical error — to build a more poetic understanding of the region and its inhabitants
Enforcement · Geography · Ideology · Physics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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