Forgotten Border Actors: the Border Reinforcers. A Comparison Between the U.S.–Mexico Border and South American Borders
This article is a critique of two different types of essentialisms that have gained widespread acceptance in places as distant as the U.S.-Mexico border and different Mercosur frontiers. Both essentialisms rely on metaphors that refer to the concept of "union," and put their emphasis on a...
Main Authors: | Alejandro Grimson, Pablo Vila |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Arizona Libraries
2002-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Political Ecology |
Online Access: | https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/21635 |
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