| Abstrakt: |
Borders are sites of violence and technologies of colonial control. They are also crucibles for the creation of new subjectivities. In this essay, I provide three glances on border violence and the challenges and perhaps unexpected opportunities they represent for Indigenous agency. The first glance is autoethnographic and focuses on my early life in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. The second one considers some episodes from the history of Amazonian borderlands, and the third reflects on a long-term collaboration with Mike Wilson, a Tohono O'odham activist. Juxtaposing the violence of bordertowns with the dialectic possibilities of borderlands, I make a case for understanding the destruction and productive power of boundaries. Following scholars in Indigenous and Borderlands Studies, I bring an autoethnographic sensibility to this analytical reflection on borders as zones of death and ethnogenesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
