Unsettled Borders
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Unsettled Borders

The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land

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eBook - PDF

Unsettled Borders

The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land

About this book

In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled "Optics Valley," Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, extraction, and occupation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders
  6. 1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars
  7. 2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation
  8. 3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant/Native Embodiment
  9. 4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the YucatĂĄn
  10. Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index