... US-Mexico War periodization critical bibliography violence Georges Bataille ...

... be understood through the theories of Georges Bataille, whose conceptualization of early America was inflected by myths of violent sacrifice. US-Mexico War periodization critical bibliography violence Georges Bataille ...

..., the chapter argues that erasures found in texts by officers and soldiers fighting in Mexico shaped the war’s public meanings. Using critical bibliography, the essay makes several larger theoretical claims. First, the circumlocutions that structured cultural production of US military personnel must define...

... became dominant. Globally, US supply-side control pushed drug production further underground and to new locations worldwide. Golden Triangle Richard Nixon Mexico War on Drugs ...

... artists locate migration beyond the US-Mexico border to reveal empires' spatial logics of movement control—a war on mobility. border art countercartographies migration remittances vertical border ...

... and Mexico are complicit in the construction of this racial geography as "savage," as subject to all forms of terrorism (including jihadist) and in need of militarization. The coda argues that the scalping and beheadings used by the narcos to intimidate their workforce, consumers, and the general citizenry...

... use supply-side control This chapter explores how, during World War II, the production and supply of drugs were greatly disrupted while legitimate medical demand, especially for opiates, increased. Use of amphetamines increased as well. All governments worked to control narcotics distribution...

... Neoliberalism spelled an end for state forestry and the post–World War II edifice of state-led development and highly intrusive resource management regimes. By the 2010s, Mexico’s overall rate of deforestation, which had once been the fifth highest in the world, had slowed considerably. Some...

...Militarism, Empire, and War<subtitle>The Security State and States of Insecurity</subtitle> This essay examines the devolution of immigrant detention and deportation efforts domestically and internationally. It addresses the outsourcing of detention operations to surrogate jailers and the use...

..., Kun traces the work of mobile Mexican dj sound systems, or sonidos, operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sonidos use the dj mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics...

..., effeminized, and contemplative Japan. On the other hand, they deliberately internalized what Gutai founder Yoshihara Jir? called “the psychological realism” of American humanism expressed in avant-garde art. This polarity is what this chapter calls “Godzilla's schizophrenia.” Pacific Cold War Japanese...

... War II Notwithstanding the increasing industrialization of the timber sector, some efforts persisted to use small-scale, community forestry as a means to develop the economy of rural Mexico. In Chihuahua, the National Indigenist Institute ( Instituto Nacional Indigenista , or INI) established...

... This chapter traces the organizational history and creative output of Paredon Records, a US-based company created by two veteran Jewish activists with roots in the worlds of folk music and the Old Left, Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber. Founded in 1970, Paredon released fifty records generated...

... departments in the country, beginning in the late nineteenth century and lasting beyond the Chaco War (1932–35). The leaders, such as Santos Marka Tola, who signed the petition that follows in 1923, were accused of organizing subversion and revolt, and were subject to harassment by the landlord elite...

... of an increasingly regularized and Americanized mode of cultural consumption. seriality paraliterature intermediality World War I Chapter 5 examines the production of sensational melodramas outside Rio and São Paulo in the 1920s as the dynamics of the Brazilian economy fueled disparities between...

... and promote the unionization of rural workers, del Granado asserts, it would be following a ruinous Soviet model. “Lands to the Indian, Mines to the State” was first put forth as a slogan by the socialist writer Tristán Marof in 1926 and gained ground after the Chaco War, capturing revolutionary...

..., on 22 July, in the midst of a firefight with the army, they were separated from the others. They were then taken captive and interrogated under torture. Thanks above all to Chingolo, who was better informed, the military used them to uncover various caches and documents of the guerrilla at their base...

... formación del lenguaje hasta nuestros días (continuación) . M. Menéndez y Pelayo (ed.), 1905–. Madrid: Ediciones Atlas. CBC : Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos “Bartolomé de Las Casas.” Cuzco. FCE : Fondo de Cultura Económica. Mexico City–Lima–Buenos Aires. HYC : Historia y Cultura...

... capital of Bolivia. Their advocates sought to reunify the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the state in the same location for the first time since the Federal War of 1898–99, when the legislative and executive powers were transferred to La Paz. The struggle to make Sucre the unitary...