Unsettled Borders
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
1st Edition
Published on 2. May 2022
224 pages
978-1-4780-2256-5 (ISBN)
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Felicity Amaya Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized surveillance at the US-Mexico border across time and space as well as the efforts of Native peoples to continue ancestral practices in the face of ecological and social violence.
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Unsettled Borders
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
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Unsettled Borders
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
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08/2022
Duke University Press
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Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas, and coeditor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship.
Content
Preface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1
1. "The Eyes of the Army": Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29
2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O'odham Reservation 55
3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the "Hidden Intent" of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81
4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104
Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139
Notes 153
Bibliography 185
Index 201
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1
1. "The Eyes of the Army": Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29
2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O'odham Reservation 55
3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the "Hidden Intent" of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81
4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104
Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139
Notes 153
Bibliography 185
Index 201
