Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border by Ieva Jusionyte (Engli

Description: Threshold by Ieva Jusionyte "Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the wall, and put out fires that know no national boundaries. Paramedics and firefighters on both sides of the border are tasked with saving lives and preventing disasters in the harsh terrain at the center of divisive national debates. Ieva Jusionytes firsthand experience as an emergency responder provides the background for her gripping examination of the politics of injury and rescue in the militarized region surrounding the US-Mexico border. Operating in this area, firefighters and paramedics are torn between their mandate as frontline state actors and their responsibility as professional rescuers, between the limits of law and pull of ethics. From this vantage they witness what unfolds when territorial sovereignty, tactical infrastructure, and the natural environment collide. Jusionyte reveals the binational brotherhood that forms in this crucible to stand in the way of catastrophe. Through beautiful ethnography and a uniquely personal perspective, Threshold provides a new way to understand politicized issues ranging from border security and undocumented migration to public access to healthcare today. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "At a time of nativist talk and wall building, Ieva Jusionytes breathtaking Threshold weaves a fiercely honest and personal narrative of first responders along the Sonora-Arizona border. A wonderful read that defies rhetoric and exposes an illuminating, sobering truth."--Alfredo Corchado, correspondent and author of Midnight in Mexico: A Reporters Journey through a Countrys Descent into Darkness "The US-Mexico borderland--barren, desolate, fierce--is a teeming terrain, with its desert capillaries circulating life without regard to who is legally entitled to it: migrants, smugglers of people and of drugs, federal agents. Its a militarized double war zone (drug war, war on terror) and a zone of epic human struggle and tragedy, but its also a place of breathtaking natural wonders. Ieva Jusionytes captivating account of often-collaborating US and Mexican firefighting and rescue units on both sides of the border yields startling and original insights. This beautifully written, lucid book demonstrates how powerfully close observations, precise descriptions, and stories of landscape and people can transmit thought and feeling, and earned knowledge, too."--Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? " Threshold makes a fundamental contribution to anthropology by providing a new perspective on something often presented as familiar and well understood: the US-Mexico border. The emergency responders with whom Jusionyte works have a distinctive perspective on the terrain on both sides of the border and on the different state agencies operating in the area. Her observations concerning the landscape as a tool of the state and especially of state violence are arresting, allowing us to see statecraft at the border in an entirely new way."--Shaylih Muehlmann, author of When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands "Ieva Jusionyte has provided us with a brilliant and timely look into the realities of the US-Mexico border during an era when fantasy, fear, and alternative facts have clouded Americas perception of the region. Threshold demonstrates in clear and riveting prose the deep and unexpected insight that the anthropological lens can provide in a place where the simplistic (and well-worn) migration tropes are difficult to escape. This book breaks new ground for border studies while simultaneously refusing to be pigeonholed in that genre."--Jason De Le Author Biography Ieva Jusionyte is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies at Harvard University and the author of Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border. She has trained and volunteered as an emergency medical technician, paramedic, and wildland firefighter in Florida, Arizona, and Massachusetts. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Dead End Treacherous Terrain First Due to the Border Binational Security Toxic Statecraft Politics of Wounding and of Rescue PART ONE: ANKLE ALLEY Nogales, Arizona, Mexico Fence Jumpers Tactical Infrastructure Por Otro Lado Overpaid Tomato Pickers Accidental Violence PART TWO: DOWNWIND, DOWNHILL, DOWNSTREAM Brotherhood Red Tape Maquiladora Acid Rain Road to Rocky Point Staging Security of the Future PART THREE: WILDLAND Load Vehicles The Man in Black Dress Pants Bound by Law Watchouts Aid Is Not a Crime Land of Many Uses Some Pill to Help Us Walk EPILOGUE: THE GREAT NEW WALL About This Project Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes References Index Review "[Jusionyte] writes movingly of the collaborative efforts between Nogales, in Arizona, and its counterpart across the border, Nogales, Sonora—the two towns fire departments have frequently called upon one another for aid. Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse." * Publishers Weekly *"Threshold takes the reader close to realities so easily overlooked that no public figure has even gotten around to lying about them." * Inside Higher Education *"This volume explores the dilemmas faced by paramedics and firefighters along the US–Mexico border as they try to balance their responsibilities as lifesavers with the demands of the laws that govern the border areas in which they work." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy * "A staggering work of public anthropology, one that is richly detailed, finely argued, and written in an engaging, even captivating style that brings the reader right to the frontlines of the so-called hostile environments and tactical infrastructures that now mark the US-Mexico border." * Public Anthropologist *"A timely book that will appeal to academic and public audiences interested in a more nuanced understanding of security and humanitarianism on the border." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This book is a remarkable socio-historical-anthropological study of the war-zone landscape of the US/Mexico border." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review * Review Quote "[Jusionyte] writes movingly of the collaborative efforts between Nogales, in Arizona, and its counterpart across the border, Nogales, Sonora--the two towns fire departments have frequently called upon one another for aid. Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse." Details ISBN0520297180 Author Ieva Jusionyte Year 2018 ISBN-10 0520297180 ISBN-13 9780520297180 Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Birth 1983 Pages 296 DEWEY 362.180972/1 Short Title Threshold Language English Series Number 41 Publication Date 2018-11-09 UK Release Date 2018-11-09 AU Release Date 2018-11-09 NZ Release Date 2018-11-09 US Release Date 2018-11-09 Illustrations 24 bw photos and 2 maps Publisher University of California Press Series California Series in Public Anthropology Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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