Coloniality of the Us/Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative

By Roberto D. Hernández

National borders are often taken for granted as normal and necessary for a peaceful and orderly global civil society. Roberto D. Hernández advances a provocative argument that borders-and bonier violence-are geospatial manifestations of long histories officialized and gendered colonial violence. Hernández offers an exemplary case and lens for understanding what he terms the "epistemic and cartographic prison of modernity/coloniality." He adopts "coloniality of power" as a central analytical category and framework to consider multiple forms of real and symbolic violence and analyzes the varied responses by diverse actors, including local residents, government officials, and cultural producers. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081654039X
• ISBN13: 9780816540396
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"