Diabolic caminos in the desert and cat fights on the Río: A posthumanist political ecology of boundary enforcement in the United States-Mexico Borderlands

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-336

  Sundberg, Juanita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary enforcement; Political ecology; Posthumanism; Relational ontologies; U.S. Mexico border

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; REGIONAL SECURITY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952422750     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.538323     Document Type: Article

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