Critical Cultural Communication. Border Optics : : Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier / / Camilla Fojas.

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to “build a wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 perce...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Critical Cultural Communication
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 10 b/w illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Author’s Note --
Introduction Border Óptica, or Seeing like a State --
1 Borderveillant Media --
2 Drone Futures Alien versus Predator --
3 Wild Border Surveillant Ecologies --
4 Imperial Border Optics --
5 Border Futures Seeing and Foreseeing --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
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Summary:Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to “build a wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to the border, imagining what the wall would look like came easily to most Americans, in part because of how images of the border are reproduced and circulated for national audiences. Border Optics considers the US-Mexico border as one of the most visualized and imagined spaces in the US. As a place of continual crisis, permanent visibility, and territorial defense, the border is rendered as a layered visual space of policing—one that is seen from watchtowers, camera-mounted vehicles, helicopters, surveillance balloons, radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and live streaming websites. It is also a space that is visualized across various forms and genres of media, from maps to geographical surveys, military strategic plans, illustrations, photographs, postcards, novels, film, and television, which combine fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey.Border Optics elaborates on the expanded vision of the border as a consequence of the interface of militarism, technology, and media. Camilla Fojas describes how the perception of the viewing public is controlled through a booming security-industrial complex made up of entertainment media, local and federal police, prisons and detention centers, the aerospace industry, and all manner of security technology industries. The first study to examine visual codes of surveillance within an analysis of the history and culture of the border region, Border Optics is an innovative and groundbreaking examination of security cultures, race, gender, and colonialism.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781479807062
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754186
9783110753967
9783110739107
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479806980.001.0001
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Camilla Fojas.