Treacherous Terrain: Racial Exclusion and Environmental Control at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Mendoza, Mary E.

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“…Much of these tensions are rooted in colonial land theft and the displacement of Indigenous peoples with twentieth century movements for environmental preservation and the creation of national parks (Spence 2000). More recently, as historian Mary Mendoza (2018) notes, environmentalists who oppose border wall construction for its impact on endangered animals and plants often ignore the human suffering and death as the result of border militarisation, which reifies the separation of nature from culture and human from animal (Mendoza 2018). Moreover, as Mendoza (2018) argues, environmentalists' arguments for controlling borderlands environments have 'consistently worked to the detriment of human migrants, hardened racial divisions, and reinforced social hierarchies' (119).…”

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Immigrants, Scientists, and Butterflies: Depicting Cultural and Biological Diversity in Conservation Photography of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 2007-2019

Perret¹

2022

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This article examines the work of conservation photographer Krista Schlyer who documented the impact of the U.S.-Mexico border wall on people, wildlife, and the land between 2009 and 2012. While scholars in the environmental humanities have previously analyzed literary and artistic representations of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this is the first analysis of how conservation photography portrays biodiversity in the borderlands. I analyze Schlyer’s works including Continental Divide (2012), a collection of photography, and Ay Mariposa (2019), a documentary film, in the historical context of the controversy concerning the environmental consequences of border wall construction that escalated during the 2016 election cycle and under the Trump administration. I argue that Schlyer’s work depicts the intersection of cultural and biological diversity in the borderlands in such a way as to unsettle and transcend oppositions of nature-culture and human-animal. These findings have implications for cultural productions that advocate for social and environmental justice.

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Immigrants, Scientists, and Butterflies: Depicting Cultural and Biological Diversity in Conservation Photography of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 2007-2019

Perret¹

2022

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Hidden Externalities: The Globalization of Hazardous Waste

Müller¹

2019

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This article focuses on chemical retailers Jack and Charles Colbert to, first, show the externalization processes linked to the greening of U.S. industry through stricter consumer and environmental protection regulations and, second, illustrate the limitations of nationally framed environmentalism targeting businesses in a global market. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Colberts traded chemicals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had banned for use in the United States. They exported them legally to countries where the material was still a permitted commodity—primarily in the global South. Rare interview material illustrates how the exporters justified their unequal business deals by misappropriating the meaning of recycling.

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From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

Van Ramshorst

2024

Urban Geography

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Treacherous Terrain: Racial Exclusion and Environmental Control at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Immigrants, Scientists, and Butterflies: Depicting Cultural and Biological Diversity in Conservation Photography of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 2007-2019

Immigrants, Scientists, and Butterflies: Depicting Cultural and Biological Diversity in Conservation Photography of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 2007-2019

Hidden Externalities: The Globalization of Hazardous Waste

From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

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