The face of the state on the U.S.-Mexico border |
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Affiliation: | 1. Independent Scholar, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA;2. School of Geography and Development, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210137, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA;1. Digital Media and Ethnography, University of Sydney, Australia;2. School of Literature, Art, and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, John Woolley Building A20, Science Road, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia |
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Abstract: | In recent years, feminist geopolitics and the turns toward emotional and affective geography have resulted in new perspectives on theories of power, embodiment and subjectivity. Other recent trends have considered non-human objects as important for state theory, insofar as state practice often relies upon the force of objects in everyday life. This article works to bring together object-oriented and emotional geographies for a new perspective on the state. It does so by drawing on another theoretical tradition that has been less familiar for political geography: psychoanalytic theory. Findings from ethnographic research with residents living near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona help illuminate the presence and spectral circulation of what we call the “face of the state” as a psycho-emotional entity in everyday life for these residents. Surveillance objects enter the psyche through the face of the state, insofar as they are imagined and felt as a visual and embodied experience. The force of the object, then, extends beyond its own materiality and into the psycho-social dimensions of life through which state power operates, thereby empowering the border to gaze at the subject population in powerful new ways. |
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Keywords: | Emotion Geopolitics Subjectivity Border Object-oriented ontology Psychoanalysis |
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