Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Schaeffer Felicity Amaya
Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Schaeffer Felicity Amaya In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war…
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Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Schaeffer Felicity Amaya
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. 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 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.
Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences, or ancestral land-based practices