Thursday 8 October. 16 h. Campus Catalunya Classroom 422Seminar by Professor Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso.
The present paper discusses four aspects of border studies from the perspective of the US-Mexico border.
The first one is that borders can be seen as differentiating and filtering complex systems, rather than rigid territorial containers that tend to disappear. Secondly, border studies often confuse nationality and ethnic boundaries on one hand, and state and territory rights on the other hand. Thirdly, the symbolism of borders is distinctive and powerful, and connects to the conceptual confusion surrounding borders and nationality / ethnicity. Finally, border cultures have been debated since the School of hybricity and its critics, who emphasize the polarization; these observations on borders and complex filters and various theoretical alignments should be considered in the discussion of border cultures.
Josiah Heyman (Ph.D., CUNY 1988) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has published three books and 40 scientific articles and book chapters. Including Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886-1986 (University of Arizona Press 1991) Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective (American Anthropological Association 1998), and States and Illegal Practices (edited, Berg 1999). In 1999 he received the prize Curl Essay Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. His current work focuses on social mobility and containers, including editing a special issue (with Hilary Cunningham) of the journal Identities (Vol. 11, No. 3). Also, with Robert Pallitto highlight the article "Cross-Border Mobility theorizing: Surveillance, Security and Identity," Flight Surveillance & Society. 5, available at: http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles5 (3) / mobility.pdf
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