Author : Kristen Hill Maher,David Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197557198
Unequal Neighbors by Kristen Hill Maher,David Carruthers Pdf
San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies. In Unequal Neighbors, Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers shift attention from the national border to a local one, examining the role of place stigma in reinforcing actual and imagined inequalities between these cities. While the details of the book are particular to this corner ofthe world, the kinds of processes it documents offer a window into the making of unequal neighbors more broadly. The dynamics at the Tijuana border present a framework for understanding how inequalities that manifest in cultural practices produce asymmetric borders between places.