Feminist Geopolitics and the Study of Militarization in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Presenter: Juanita Sundberg, Associate Professor, Geography
Tuesday, February 7th from 3:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Ponderosa Annex G Lounge
Light refreshments will be served.
Feminist geopolitics offers approaches to address the intimate frontiers of geopolitics. The intimate as an analytical category or site embodies mundane material social relations and objects, attitudes and disciplinary practices that serve as sources of identification and subject formation. Seen through the lens of the intimate, boundaries between domestic and national blur; they are folded into the texture of quotidian life, woven into everyday stories.
This workshop aims to consider the theoretical implications of feminist geopolitics for studying geopolitical questions like border security. What does this analytic render visible that otherwise might have remained invisible?
SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Sundberg’s current research examines the environmental dimensions of the United States’ border security policies in the US-Mexico borderlands, with a specific focus on protected areas like national wildlife refuges.
Recommended readings:
- Mountz, A. and Hyndman, J. Feminist approaches to the global intimate.
Women’s Studies Quarterly, 34(1/2), 446-463. (available online at UBC
library) - Sundberg, J. (2008). ‘Trash-talk’ and the production of quotidian
geopolitical boundaries in the USA-Mexico borderlands. Social &
Cultural Geography, 9(8), 871- 890. doi: 10.1080/14649360802441424
(available online at UBC library)
Contact Autumn at alk1959@interchange.ubc.ca to RSVP.
Hosted by the Department of Educational Studies at UBC