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Zusatztext " Savage Frontier is a well-crafted work that will appeal to scholars and students alike. In addition to its contribution to the critical anthropology of security, it builds on a growing anthropological literature of news and journalism." Informationen zum Autor Ieva Jusionyte is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. She is also the coordinator of the Crime! Law! and Governance in the Americas graduate program and interdisciplinary working group. Klappentext " Savage Frontier is a fascinating study of the entanglement of those who make news and those who make security in the allegedly 'lawless' Triple Frontier. In a zone of clandestine practices! public secrets! and camouflage statecraft! Ieva Jusionyte explores in vivid detail how journalists navigate illegal practices! codes of silence! and global and local discourses on (il)legality."-Dominic Boyer! Rice University "Jusionyte combines her experience as a professional journalist and anthropologist to examine local media production in the under-studied tri-border area. Through extensive fieldwork and a fresh ethnographic approach! Jusionyte fills a critical need for the study of Latin American media production! while also contributing to the growing field of security studies."-Winifred Tate! author of Drugs! Thugs! and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia " Savage Frontier explores how mass media are shaped by but also constitute borders. With a sharp ethnographic approach! Jusionyte explores how global! national! and local media form our conception of the Triple Frontier of Argentina! Brazil! and Paraguay."- Josiah Heyman! University of Texas at El Paso Zusammenfassung Combining extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism, this book explains how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Hide-and-Seek 1. Breaking the Code of Silence 2. Dispatches from the Wild 3. Global Village of Outlaws 4. Small Town! Big Hell 5. On and off the Record 6. Blurred Boundaries Conclusion: Ethnography of In/visibility Notes References Index ...
