...Rihan Yeh In Tijuana, across the US-Mexico border from San Diego, California, transnational flows precipitate anxieties over autonomous agency. This essay explores how these anxieties afflict not just individual “I”s but the city’s “we”s as well. Due to pressures associated with different types...

...Josh Kun This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico...

... asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border in November 2018 (and that is regularly used to attack civilians in sites ranging from Gaza to the streets of Paris and cities throughout the United States). Sonic weaponry such as the long range acoustic device (LRAD) and tear gas work with drone systems, large...

... of financial and other value from life itself. Visiting the US-Mexico and Euro-African borders in turn, it considers biotechnologies for surveillance and detection; detention and “warehousing”; and risk strategies for deterring migration, in each case delving into the political economy of human vitality...

..., Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy” considers how such photographs circulate, connecting incarcerated subjects and their loved ones. From the circulation of images across a carceral divide we turn, in the issue’s second group of research essays, to the movement of sound across the US-Mexico border...

... attention to the everydayness of violence work by the police, which, they argue, appears obscure and unremarkable when set against the spectacle of war. Drawing on examples from policing by the Los Angeles Police Department as well as aerial patrol at the US-Mexico border, Kaplan and Miller show how...

... of the border strengthen national security? What impact does the militarization of the border have on the US economy? What impact does it have on United States – Mexico relations? To the extent that local issues are ever addressed, the focus is on the impact of the border militarization campaigns...

... In Tijuana the “International Line” is not the border per se. Rather, la Línea refers to San Ysidro, the city’s main port of entry between Mexico and the United States, and to the area just south. It refers to the area that borders on the border, where the line forms to cross north. I have heard...

... public consciousness concerning the plight of migrants and to entreat President Barack Obama to end US deportation programs. I trace AMIREDIS's border politics—less a migration effort than a march on the halls of power—through the architecture of their narrative testimony. The narratives follow...

... referent of “American” as it is used by my informants and commonly along the Mexico–U.S. border to identify residents and citizens of the United States who do not identify themselves as Mexican. 461 Public Culture one million...

... of the violence created by the war on drugs in Mexico. The goal of the caravan was to visit several US cities and bring attention to the very high human cost created by drug policies in both Mexico and the United States. On this tour, activists argued forcefully that their missing loved ones and many others who...

..., futureless adolescents, pensioners, children living in the streets, victims of torture, AIDS patients, the mentally ill, exiles, indigenous peoples, and battered women. More recently, in Mexico, Ileana Diéguez (2016) has collected pieces that use the figure to think about disarticulated genders, broken...

... America , edited by J. Beverley, J. Oviedo, and M. Arona. Durham,N.C.: Duke University Press. ———. 1998 . Ética de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y de la exclusión . Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México. Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi. 1997 . The color of reason...

... in the past decades. Until the mid-l970s, the term “naco,” which was allegedly a contraction of Totonaco, was used as a slur against Indians or, more generally, against peasants or anyone who stood for the provincial back- wardness that Mexico...

... as though Mexico stood outside of the laws that shelter and pro- tect the civilised peoples.3 Thus, with the gradual attainment of stability and hegemony, the revolutions of the past were portrayed as inevitable and useful, and they could...

.... There is the strong fear that Spanish is killing off English; it is considered the language of the largest minority, and yet a small percentage of this minority, if by minority we mean citizens, fluently speaks it or is fully able to use it as a written form of expression at all levels (academic, literary...

... of design”; Jie Li explores Chinese cyber- memories of the Cultural Revolution through two banned documentaries; Mari- ana Valverde looks back at Walter Benjamin’s last days in the Catalan border town of Port Bou; Rihan Yeh examines the exclusions involved in public formation on Mexico’s northern...

... Mexico is turned back at the border by a group of Mexican border guards depicted as greasy, stupid and clearly corrupt. Our hero, however, is able to outwit them, sneaking his sports car across the line. From the land of the free, home of the brave, he looks back to give the startled guards...

...Joseph Masco © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Joseph Masco is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “States of Insecurity:Plutonium and Post–Cold War Anxiety in New Mexico, 1992–96”in Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities...

.... Carrillo, Hector. 2002. The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2002. Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Sub- altern Studies. Chicago: University...