JGI216H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Urban Warfare, Societal Security, Femicide
11 May 2018
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Professor David Roberts Mar. 23, 2017
JGI216 LECTURE 10
SECURITIZED CITIES (PT.1) Border Cities: El Paso + Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
KEY THEMES
• Securitized cities as a framework
• The U.S. - Mexico border as a construction
• The uneven geographies of globalization along the border
• Necoropolitics, Femicide
***Remittances are one link between globalization and securitized cities
THE SECURITIZED CITY
• Border construction and enforcement
• Uneven geographies of globalization
• Cities are new sites of danger and security
• The discourse and geographic imagination of the urban war on terror
SECURITY, GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY
• Safety isn't just about people safe, it's about focusing on issues through political descion
that are the most important (ex, Opiate addiction has killed more people than terrorism)
• Security is constructed and created
THE U.S. - MEXICO BORDER
• Site of exchanges
• The only significant border in the world that separates a third world country and a first
world country
• Acculturiazatin, Ceolization
THE SOCIO-CULTURAL BORDER
• As migration, trade, and transnationalism impact all other parts of the United States and
Mexico, the effects and characteristics of the border transected its physical dimensions
through socio cultural phenomena
• The phenomena include; transnationalism, cultural diffusion (many Latino's living
around the border), multiculturalism, bilingualism
BORDERLANDS
• Intimacies of transnationalism
• Critical site meeting between genders, ethnicities and social classes
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Professor David Roberts Mar. 23, 2017
THE BORDER AS CONSTRUCTION
• Understanding the border as constructed requires thinking of borders beyond traditional
geopolitical assumptions and instead as active, constructed forms of limits, of identity,
and culture…
• Constructivism is not really a theory, but rather an approach to social inquiry based on
two assumptions:
1) the environment in which agents/states take action is social as well as material
2) this setting can provide agents with understandings of their interests, thus
helping constitute them
PRODUCTION OF BOUNDARIES
• Border producing practices shape our experiences in many ways
THE PRESENT STATE OF SECURITIZING IN THE U.S. - MEXICO BORDER
1) The U.S. developed a state and societal security problematic that focused on a newly
defined threat
2) The political and social representation of U.S. borderlands under the new measures is to
some extent one of image while actual policy effectiveness is in question
3) The construction of this security threat relied on particular social contexts of interests and
identity
POST - 9/11, A NEW SENSE OF THREAT
• Since 9/11 the U.S. homeland has been seen as fundamentally unique
• Greater fear of terrorism and fear of the "other"
THE TEXAS VIRTUAL BORDER PROGRAM
• Allows anyone anywhere to engage in border surveillance
• Not an effective practice
JUAREZ & EL PASO
• With over 2.7 million people, this binational region is the second largest metropolitan
area on the United States and Mexico border
• Globalization was meant to solve time space impediments like borders, but over time it
has run into geo political issues (Ex. USA has stepped back from the promise of
globalization) ***connect to time-space compression
AN UNEVEN GEOGRAPHY CREATED BY THE BORDER
• By some estimates, El Paso is now the safest big city in the United States; Ciudad Juárez
is among the most dangerous in the world
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Document Summary
Securitized cities (pt. 1) border cities: el paso + ciudad juarez, mexico. Key themes: securitized cities as a framework, the u. s. - mexico border as a construction, the uneven geographies of globalization along the border, necoropolitics, femicide. ***remittances are one link between globalization and securitized cities. The securitized city: border construction and enforcement, uneven geographies of globalization, cities are new sites of danger and security, the discourse and geographic imagination of the urban war on terror. Security, globalization and the city: safety isn"t just about people safe, it"s about focusing on issues through political descion that are the most important (ex, opiate addiction has killed more people than terrorism, security is constructed and created. The u. s. - mexico border: site of exchanges, the only significant border in the world that separates a third world country and a first world country, acculturiazatin, ceolization. The socio-cultural border: as migration, trade, and transnationalism impact all other parts of the united states and.
