Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Catherine Whittaker; Eveline Dürr; Jonathan Alderman; Carolin Luiprecht

book: Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Catherine Whittaker , Eveline Dürr , Jonathan Alderman and Carolin Luiprecht

Volume 4 in the series Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110985573

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Open Access

Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestations surrounding belonging create particularly watchful selves and that this is a significant aspect of borderland lifeworlds more broadly.

The book advances the Anthropology of borders, coloniality, subjectivity, and race, as well as contributing to Chicano and Latino Studies, and Urban Studies. Pushing the boundaries of conventional approaches, this book is methodologically innovative by including team fieldwork, digital ethnography, and illustrative work by a local artist. It fills a gap in Security Studies by examining peer-to-peer vigilance beyond top-down surveillance and bottom-up "sousveillance," and expanding previous understandings of watchfulness as an ambivalent practice that can also express care and contribute to community building, as well as representing a "way of life."

Author / Editor information

Catherine Whittaker, Frankfurt; Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, Carolin Luiprecht, München.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XII
Chapter 1 Introducing Watchfulness in San Diego Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors: Watchfulness as Ethnographic Method Open Access Download PDF	35
Chapter 3 “Sometimes you have to Transform into a Serpent”: Political Subject-making around Chicano Park Open Access Download PDF	67
Chapter 4 Watching out across Time and Space in Aztlán: Chronopolitics in Chicano Park Open Access Download PDF	91
Chapter 5 “Why us?”: Making Environmental and Health Threats Visible Open Access Download PDF	115
Chapter 6 Watchful Brujxs: Social Justice Activism in the Digital Sphere Open Access Download PDF	147
Conclusion. Decolonial Watchfulness and Watchful Lives in San Diego Open Access Download PDF	167
References Open Access Download PDF	179
List of Acronyms Open Access Download PDF	196
List of Figures and Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	197

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers in the field of ethnologic, urban, american, geografic, cultural, securitiy and border studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 198
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
Keywords: Vigilance; Borderland; Latino; Subjectivation

eBook

Published: April 3, 2023
ISBN: 9783110985573

Paperback

Published: April 3, 2023
ISBN: 9783110997279