TexasObserver , 5 months ago to bookstodon

“The U.S.-Mexico #border is a land of contrast—austere landscapes and lush oases; thunderstorms and rainbows; robust industries and ghost towns; great wealth and aching poverty.”

From our magazine, photographer and journalist Sergio Chapa takes us along a magical journey winding back and forth between two nations: https://www.texasobserver.org/frontera-border-book-us-mexico-sergio-chapa?utm_campaign=mastodon

#photography #books #Mexico #Texas #Arizona #culture @bookstodon

JochenLingelba1 , 5 months ago to histodons German

The excellent #zif #bielefeld #border talk series continues this Thursday with Lucy Mayblin and Thom Davies

Eco-Coloniality and the Violent Environmentalism of the UK-France Border

Join online here:

https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/events/#/event/7643

@politicalscience @histodons #coloniality #environmentalism

TexasObserver , 5 months ago to bookstodon

“For more than a century, the US has devised one policy after another to keep people out of the country. For more than a century, it has failed.”

Jonathan Blitzer, an #immigration journalist, asks provocative questions about the #border and our human rights record there in his new book, Everyone Who is Gone is Here. Senior Staff Writer @gusbova reviews: https://www.texasobserver.org/central-america-book-migration-jonathan-blitzer?utm_campaign=mastodon

#books #culture #HumanRights #journalism @bookstodon

avldigital , 6 months ago to litstudies German

The event "Border #Temporalities. Doing #Literature in a World of Walls - Pia Berghoff: Temporalities of Migration at the US-Mexico #Border. Ethnographic #Narratives and #Literary Approaches" will take place at the Freie Universität Berlin (#EXC2020) on January 11, 2024.

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/border-temporalities-doing-literature-in-a-world-of-walls-pia-berghoff-temporalities-of-migratio/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #postcolonial #Poetics

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