Fear, Loathing and the Everyday Geopolitics of Encounter in the Arizona Borderlands

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ID3948503
AuthorsJill Williams, Jill M Williams (0000-0002-9957-9520, Clark University, corresponding author), Gerard Boyce (0000-0001-7713-9084, University of Arizona), Geoffrey Alan Boyce
Year2013
Volume18
Issue4
Pages895-916
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2013.780035
OpenAlexW1968607699
LanguageEN
Citations received51

This paper argues for the importance of attending to both affective and emotional experience in analysing the origins and effects of border and immigration efforts in the US/Mexico border region. We do so by engaging with theoretical understands of the politics of affect and emotion among cultural and feminist geographers and social scientists. We then examine Arizona's SB 1070 and its connection to a larger history of border and immigration enforcement in Arizona. Drawing from ethnographic work, interviews, and media and policy analysis, we engage with narratives provided by border area ranchers to unpack how these ranchers' encounters with unauthorised migrants have changed over time. We then examine how the everyday fear and anxiety associated with these encounters drive political activism and state intervention in the region. We conclude by discussing how this intervention, in turn, reproduces racial and gender hierarchies, hierarchies that are themselves affectively mediated

Affect (linguistics) · Criminology · Ethnography · Geopolitics · Immigration · Intervention (counseling) · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology

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