CLUSTER 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Geopolitics, 4000 Miles, Terra Nullius
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The police doesn"t police the borders the same way -- northern borders specifically. While linked to local geographies which can influence politics, there is often a social construction of territory. Creates a normative notion of territory and thus normative notions of belonging. They can reterritorialize space-- often through power and force to protect state-centric notions of security and identity. Us/mexico as discussed in cantu-- a specific cultural zone of us imagination/ difference imagination/ difference. Us/canada regarded as a 4000 miles of wilderness comes to visibility with indigneous conflict. Us/573 native nations consent on tribal lands in needed. Even as the land turned brittle in the heat, the tohono oodham people never left they were here long before their land was divided first by a border then again as fences were built and fates closed. Now they fear they will be divided once more.
