UID:
almahu_9949471346702882
Format:
1 online resource (XIII, 198 p.)
ISBN:
9783110985573
Series Statement:
Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance , 4
Content:
Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestations surrounding belonging create particularly watchful selves and that this is a significant aspect of borderland lifeworlds more broadly. The book advances the Anthropology of borders, coloniality, subjectivity, and race, as well as contributing to Chicano and Latino Studies, and Urban Studies. Pushing the boundaries of conventional approaches, this book is methodologically innovative by including team fieldwork, digital ethnography, and illustrative work by a local artist. It fills a gap in Security Studies by examining peer-to-peer vigilance beyond top-down surveillance and bottom-up "sousveillance," and expanding previous understandings of watchfulness as an ambivalent practice that can also express care and contribute to community building, as well as representing a "way of life."
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1 Introducing Watchfulness in San Diego --
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Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors: Watchfulness as Ethnographic Method --
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Chapter 3 “Sometimes you have to Transform into a Serpent”: Political Subject-making around Chicano Park --
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Chapter 4 Watching out across Time and Space in Aztlán: Chronopolitics in Chicano Park --
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Chapter 5 “Why us?”: Making Environmental and Health Threats Visible --
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Chapter 6 Watchful Brujxs: Social Justice Activism in the Digital Sphere --
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Conclusion. Decolonial Watchfulness and Watchful Lives in San Diego --
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References --
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List of Acronyms --
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List of Figures and Illustrations
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110997279
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110985573
