Border Optics - Cultures of Surveillance on the Us-mexico Frontier

"This book argues that the U.S.-Mexico border is both a laboratory and an archive that indexes an optical regime and a way of seeing that combines fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey"--

About the author

Camilla Fojas is Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her most recent books include Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture and Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

Product details

• Authors: Camilla Fojas
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781479807017
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-0701-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Critical Cultural Communication; Critical Cultural Communicatio
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries