Hernan, L. orcid.org/0000-0001-5585-2452 (2024) Down in Mexico, transmigration and storying at the border. field, 9 (1). ISSN 2753-3638
Abstract
New technologies on the Mexico-United States border involve an unprecedented collaboration between Silicon Valley and the United States Department of Defence. They bring with them a new form of narrating the border itself which, drawing on Science Fiction and Fantasy, is a means of justifying increasingly cruel ways of policing it.
Crossing the border is often a transmigration, suggesting a change of racial states that involve moving from a darker to a whiter shade. In this article, I experiment with a transmigration of stories, moving across different traditions of imagining the future. My ficto-critical approach is inspired by Magical Realism as a way to enable a dual spatiality of the text. It allows for Western and Native understandings of the land to co-exist and is a strategy to explore the connections between the imaginary and the real. The fragmentation, and the splicing involved in bringing them together, is a methodology that makes visible the project of colonisation and violence that are made invisible by the new technologies of the border.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Storying; Ficto-Critical; Mexico-US border |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2024 11:25 |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2024 11:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | School of Architecture, University of Sheffield |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.62471/field.133 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219696 |