This dissertation examines the role of slaving during the encounter between indigenous societies and Euro-American empires in the Texas borderlands from 1700 to 1840. Historians have generally overlooked the structures that bound continental and Atlantic slave systems together. In this multipolar borderland pastoral and plantation modes of producti...
Giacomo Orsini et al.’s chapter places the Gibraltar/Spanish border in a broader comparative perspective by including the island of Lampedusa and Melilla into the frame. All three examples point to the speed with which periods where people’s common culture and humanity gets trumped by political turns, where bridges rapidly become barriers. The comp...
Through the analysis of multiple lines of archaeological evidence, this dissertation examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed, negotiated, and maintained in contexts of intercultural interaction and colonialism. Specifically, these processes are addressed within the Kerma period (ca. 2500-1500 BC) and the Egyptian New Kingdom ...
Published in Latino Studies
Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands has been celebrated across several fields, and yet little attention has been given to her engagement with disability. This article expands considerations of geographical and social mobility, so that they also take into account physical (im)mobility. Anzaldúa’s meditations on movement highlight a gap in borderlands lite...
Differences and conflicts are most evident at borderlands, which act as balancing tools to organize and filter economic and migratory flows. The increased militarization of these areas, which often requires creating empty spaces next to the fences, fosters deterritorialization processes that not only have profound effects on the territory, but also...
Published in Social science & medicine (1982)
Los Algodones, Mexico is characteristic of other medical border towns whose proximity to the Mexico-United States border enables American and Canadian patients to take advantage of economic asymmetries on either side of the border to access desired health care. Los Algodones is unique, however, in its focus on the provision of dental care and claim...
Published in International Journal of Dharma Studies
This essay discusses the fundamental structure of ritual practice among the Rathvas, an adivasi group in Chhotaudepur district, Gujarat. It examines in some detail various sites of ritual practice to show how Rathvas imaginatively construct borders at these sites. At times Rathvas elaborate upon pre-existing natural or artificial borders, while at ...
Published in International Journal of Historical Archaeology
In this paper, we address some of the social impacts of war, including issues of negotiating identity during displacement caused by war. What it meant to be Swedish or Danish-Norwegian in a town where there was a not insubstantial population of foreign merchants would clearly be an ambiguous situation. Burghers were elected by fellow citizens, who ...
A book-length braided essay-like collection of poetry and nonfiction pieces addressing the author’s coming out experience as a gay man living in Mexico and then crossing into the United States. It offers a review of the moments in the life of the lyrical voice growing up as a gay middle class Mexican man who at an early age was required to learn En...
A book-length braided essay-like collection of poetry and nonfiction pieces addressing the author’s coming out experience as a gay man living in Mexico and then crossing into the United States. It offers a review of the moments in the life of the lyrical voice growing up as a gay middle class Mexican man who at an early age was required to learn En...
