TY - JOUR
T1 - Border Thinking, Borderland Diversity, and Trump’s Wall
AU - Wright, Melissa W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the National Science Foundation under award number 1023266. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. I am also grateful to the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences for funding the initial study.
Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the National Science Foundation under award number 1023266. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. I am also grateful to the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences for funding the initial study. I am especially grateful to Guadalupe D?Anda for her insights over the years on the topics I discuss here. I also owe enormous thanks to Dr. Rosalba Robles and other participants in a 2017 border studies seminar at the Universidad Aut?noma de Ciudad Ju?rez and also to the participants in my border geographies seminar at the Centro de Estudios Superiores de M?xico y Centroam?rica (CESMECA), in 2014, in San Crist?bal de las Casas. My understanding of border thinking across the Americas deepened through these important encounters. I am also indebted to Dr. Hector Padilla, Dr. Juanita Sundberg, and Leobardo Alvarado, with whom I worked on a collaborative project on militarization along the Mexico?U.S. border from 2010 to 2016. I am solely responsible for any errors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 American Association of Geographers.
PY - 2019/3/4
Y1 - 2019/3/4
N2 - Donald Trump’s agenda to build a “big” and “beautiful” border wall continues to raise alarms for anyone concerned with social justice and environmental well-being throughout the Mexico–U.S. borderlands. In this article, I examine how the border wall and its surrounding debates raise multiple issues central to political ecological and human geographic scholarship into governance across the organic spectrum. I focus particularly on a comparison of the different kinds of “border thinking” that frame these debates and that provide synergy for those coalitions dedicated to the preservation of diversity throughout the ecological and social landscapes of the Mexico–U.S. borderlands. Key Words: biodiversity, decolonial, feminist, Mexico–U.S. borderlands, neoliberal.
AB - Donald Trump’s agenda to build a “big” and “beautiful” border wall continues to raise alarms for anyone concerned with social justice and environmental well-being throughout the Mexico–U.S. borderlands. In this article, I examine how the border wall and its surrounding debates raise multiple issues central to political ecological and human geographic scholarship into governance across the organic spectrum. I focus particularly on a comparison of the different kinds of “border thinking” that frame these debates and that provide synergy for those coalitions dedicated to the preservation of diversity throughout the ecological and social landscapes of the Mexico–U.S. borderlands. Key Words: biodiversity, decolonial, feminist, Mexico–U.S. borderlands, neoliberal.
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U2 - 10.1080/24694452.2018.1542290
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2018.1542290
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061622862
SN - 2469-4452
VL - 109
SP - 511
EP - 519
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IS - 2
ER -