Title Unsettled borders : the militarized science of surveillance on sacred indigenous land / Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Series Dissident acts Dissident acts. Contents 'The eyes of the army' : Indian scouts and the rise of military innovation during the Apache Wars -- Occupation on sacred land : colliding sovereignties on the Tohono O'odham Reservation -- Automated border control : criminalizing the 'hidden intent' of migrant/native embodiment -- From the eyes of the bees : biorobotic border security and the resurgence of bee collectives in the Yucatán Summary "The story of how the U.S.-Mexico border has become more dangerous for migrant crossing has preoccupied scholars across a range of fields. As necessary as this has been, the overwhelming focus on border crossers has eclipsed the consequences of military occupation on Native tribes whose land and bodies spill across the border, including mounting numbers of Maya refugees. Unsettled Borders follows the science and technological development of border surveillance back to military innovations tasked with seeing the invisible movements of Apache and Chiricahua warriors across the rugged terrain of the western frontier. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows a range of militarized surveillance innovations across time and space, recalling the Spanish lookout points erected to monitor Maya in the Yucatan, the superior eyes of Indian scouts, automated border avatars, and swarming bee drones. From the perspective of Native border inhabitants, a broader story emerges about how mechanized seeing attempts to eradicate Native sacred and animate relation with land. With an eye on the more-than-human world, Apache, O'odham and Maya teach us about the impossibility of borders in their sacred scientific worldviews that see relation where westerners impose segregated seeing and knowing. Unsettled Borders returns to ancestral practices-from beekeepers caring for the Melipona bees who bring back their forests to O'odham relations with saguaro peoplehood amputated by border walls. The border comes alive with a resurgent force of Native land defenders who refuse extraction, occupation, and surveillance by the futile attempts to build virtual and iron-cast walls that will ultimately fail to contain life and erect borders around the world"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2022) digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Border crossing -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region Border security -- Mexican-American Border Region Indigenous peoples -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions Traditional ecological knowledge -- Mexican-American Border Region Indian activists -- Mexican-American Border Region SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies. SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. Border security Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Indian activists Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Traditional ecological knowledge SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Form Electronic book LC no. 2021031682 ISBN 1478022566 9781478022565

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