...Scott Michaelsen; Scott Cutler Shershow Duke University Press 2007 Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow ​Rethinking Border Thinking ​For better or for worse, Walter D. Mignolo’s work on the problem of colonialism has had...

...Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez Duke University Press 2006 Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez Notes from an Unrepentant Border Crosser Estoy haciendo fila, haciendo fila, estoy haciendo fila para salir del país. Es algo natural, cosa de todos los...

...Claudia Sadowski-Smith Duke University Press 2006 Claudia Sadowski-Smith Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing Since the 1990s, binational agreements like the 1994 North American Free Trade Agree- ment...

...Sarah Hill Duke University Press 2006 Sarah Hill Purity and Danger on the U.S-Mexico Border, 1991–1994 Of this unrest I myself saw nothing. In private I observed that once in every generation, without fail...

...Tony Payan Duke University Press 2006 Tony Payan The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs The U.S.-Mexico border has long been the set- ting for America’s longest war: the drug war. The first...

...Joe Cleary Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Joe Cleary Fork-Tongued on the Border Bit : Partition and the Politics of Form in Contemporary Narratives of the Northern Irish Conflict Ina poem titled Whatever You Say Say Noth­ ing, Seamus Heaney has written about the obligatory...

...Daphna Golan Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Daphna Golan Between Universalism and Particularism: The Border in Israeli Discourse I live in No-Man s-Land, on a hill between what used to be the borders of Israel and Jordan. The village is a small community of Arabs and Jews...

...Anders Linde-Laursen Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Anders Linde-Laursen Small Differences Large Issues: The Making and Remaking of a National Border nation has increasingly been a subject of discussion during the last ten years. It has steadily gained more public attention...

...Sophie Smith A G A I N S T the D A Y No More Deaths: Direct Aid in the US-Mexico Border Zone Sophie Smith, Editor These essays were written just before the onset of the Trump administration. Since the time of writing, many of the direct aid projects described here have become more imperiled. Over...

...Sophie Smith The political condition of the US-Mexico border has been deemed a homeland security crisis by governing authorities and a crisis of death and disappearance by aid workers and activists. As the US Border Patrol delivers temporary and permanent military-style policing structure to armor...

... because of them, City Plaza is a peculiar home where, under difficult and ambiguous circumstances, coexistence, cooperation, and solidarity are manufactured from day to day. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 migration border everyday life social movements self-organization...

... regimes in controlling Europe’s borders. These developments have prompted a revival of the image of the “fortress” in critical accounts of the European border regime. Building on existing criticisms of the metaphorical Fortress Europe, this article proposes an alternative political imaginary...

...Donald Pizer Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Hamlin Garland s A Son of the Middle Border: An Appreciation Donald Pizer Hamlin Garland s A Son of the Middle Border, first published in 1917, has always been considered a major American autobiog­ raphy. Its narrative of prairie...

...Ramón Saldívar Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Ramon Saldivar Transnational Migrations and Border Identities: Immigration and Postmodern Culture It was not so very long ago that terms like immigration, postmodern, and culture were rarely found in contiguity and that labor...

..., New Borders ​By the end of the 1960s, violent deaths of civil rights and Black Power icons, the continued obstructions to justice, and the lack of improve- ment in material conditions and life chances...

..., claims based on ethnicity, the Kurdish restructuring of oil ownership marks the first step in dissolving the enduring legacies of colonial administration, authoritarian governments, and systematic militarization. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 sovereignty borders oil Iraq Petroleum Company...

... Activism beyond Borders Indigenous communities in North America are either confined in remote areas of arid and undesirable living environments or scattered amid the dominant non-Indigenous colonial atmosphere. The former are distant and removed from the public’s gaze, and the latter have...

... and everyday battles of migrant women for the recognition of their freedom and their own paths to autonomy, the feminist movement has tried to construct a common battle against violence across borders, without hiding the ambivalences and difficulties that this entails. At the same time, the movement has...

... defined as a departure from the rule of law fails to capture the ongoing conflict at the borders of Europe. By highlighting its ambivalent meaning, arbitrariness appears instead either as an authoritative attempt to impose a different order on society or as a means to contrast unorderable acts...