... environment This commonsensicality achieved enough recurring believability that ‘‘the border environment’’ took on iconic status and intu- itively came to index the predicted dangers inherent in the then-being- debated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In fact, ‘‘the bor- der environment...

...? How does immigration affect market-system penetration into indigenous commu­ nities? (In other words, what are the cultural as well as socioeconomic implications of gatt and nafta for the study of culture?) From a cultural perspective, all ofthese issues have a bearing on repre­ sentation, aesthetic...

... in to the oligarchy. It’s past time for diplomatic recognition of Cuba. I am outraged at his retreat from his campaign promise to revise NAFTA, a trade pact that uproots thousands of immigrants to vigilante- ridden places like the Arizona desert. I want Medicare for all, not the brokered health...

... and produce millions of dollars in profits by waving dozens of clavos through over time. That official undermines the entire efforts of his orga- nization and constitutes a considerable loophole through which the drug 20 business can profit enormously. The NAFTA Connection...

... elites found themselves having to answer hard questions about how their economic and political programs have contributed to the city’s growing violence problems. For instance, be- tween the passage of NAFTA in 1994 and the year 2001, the homicide rate for men increased by 300 percent, while for women...

... Territorialities The EZLN uprising was most immediately visible in the successful military takeover of seven municipal headquarters in Chiapas in what turned out to be a spectacular surprise and show of force on the day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was to enter into effect. What received...

... Mexicans have been crossing the border and taking U.S. jobs. The ratification of the North American Free Trade Association (nafta) Treaty, which theoretically erases the economic borders of Mexico, the United States, and Canada, has only complicated matters by attract­ ing American companies to Mexico. One...

... in a subcontinental market, such as the EU and NAFTA, thus avoiding customs duties and lim- its on importing finished products; and a fast market response guaranteed by the company’s proximity to its customers. These factors interact to create a variety of manufacturing spaces with a considerable range...

... of walling reaches back more than twenty years to the 1990s a decade that revolutionized US-Mexico border control. The year 1994 is often remembered as a moment of radical economic liberalization on the continent with the signing of the North American Free Trade Agree- ment (NAFTA). However, beyond economic...

... (NAFTA) have accelerated the industrial- ization of Mexican border towns with largely U.S.-owned maquiladora factories, which have created conditions for heightened environmen- tal pollution and increased...

... governments withdraw, private organizations and individual citizens must take up the slack. The relationship between citi- zen and state is mediated by the free market (in the form, for example, of NAFTA) and its articulation to private property. Many of the Minutemen are ranchers along the border...

... the archive in ways that allow the then unfinished futures to remain radical and potential in the now, and speak to our current political predicament? On January 1, 1994, the same day that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, guerilla soldiers from Ejército Zapatista de...

... in the debates over Maastricht and NAFTA. In spite The South Atlantic Quarterly Spring/Summer Copyright © by Duke University Press. 472 Bruce Kuniholm of the importance of these forces, however, it is my contention that the demise of the state system...

... presentation of NAFTA. The aesthetic was the requisite of the visible, the visible the necessary component of the political. Now, political activism that cannot operate without visibility or publicity, while productive, also represents a problem. In the nineteenth century, the state produced...

... in Mexico and South America—furthered by the 1992 NAFTA elimination of tax and tariff trade barriers—opened duty-free zones for off- shore production and assembly plants servicing transnational corporations like Volkswagen Mexico and Alcoa Fujikura Ltd. Although transnational companies faced...

... was not the sole relevant form of embodiment in the fracas. Meanwhile, materialist analyses of the media event went begging, as it was hardly an individual melodrama but a symptom of national anxiety over waning U. S. power and global losses. Against the backdrop of the Nafta signing, the allegory of the Bobbitts...

... produced new forms of sovereignty in the form of interna- tional regulatory mechanisms like the GATT (General Agreement of Tariffs and Trades) and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), and also nation-states that have ensured...

... of politics but also the increasing displacement and privatization of even the legislative function of government and the severe contraction of democratic accountability. We should recall that the WTO, along with NAFTA, came into law under Democratic president Bill Clinton. 222 Melissa A. Orlie Secret...

... and rudderless present by the tension between globalization (TPP, NAFTA) and national interest (MAGA), both conceived in strictly intra-capitalist terms. Thus, while planning as such still seems stigmatized in the mainstream, a desire for a return of the state as an economic agent is rearing its head, albeit...

... of ] NAFTA, and its experimentation with autonomous and horizontal modes of organizing. Others date the origin to 1989 in ways that emphasize simi- lar qualities. For example, on the one hand, conceiving as origin the 1989 Vene- zuelan Caracazo (the riots and looting in response to the IMF-imposed­...