"Constrained by traditions restricting their movements and speech, the Maithil women of Nepal and India have long explored individual and collective life experiences by sharing stories with one another. Sometimes fantastical, sometimes including a kind of magical realism, these …
History and description of localities and settlements in the southeastern region of Mexico.
Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from …
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…
"Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, "In the Mean Time" argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest"--Provided by publisher.
In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands. She shows that routes are a pivot around which a regional biography can be written and provide…
Introduction: Force, Status, and Uncertainty in Arts of Acquisition -- Zariba Contests and Collaborations -- Manhunts persist in an unfortunate colony-- Big Game Hunting and Regulatory Sociality -- The Limits of Law in Coercive Conservation -- Camouflage Skills -- Denunciation a…