Schlagwort-Archive: US-Mexican border

Neuerscheinung Mitteilungen 01/2022

Mit den halbjährlich erscheinenden Mitteilungen bieten wir Einblicke in die aktuelle Forschungstätigkeit unseres Sonderforschungsbereiches. Sie enthalten jeweils Beiträge aus der Arbeit der Teilprojekte sowie Informationen zu Veranstaltungen, Nachrichten und aktuellen Aktivitäten des SFBs.

Mitteilungen des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1369 ‚Vigilanzkulturen‘ 01/2022 (Cover)

Der SFB steht vor einem wichtigen Jahr mit vielen Veranstaltungen. Wir freuen uns auf den Kontakt und die Anregungen, auf die wir lange genug verzichten mussten.

Einen Einblick in unsere Arbeit gewährt in diesem Heft Jonathan Alderman. Er führt die spezifische Wachsamkeit vor, die irrtümlicherweise als illegale Einwanderer:innen wahrgenommene US-Amerikaner:innen im Grenzgebiet zu Mexiko an den Tag legen. Elke Wienhausen-Knezevic und Nico Herold gehen der Frage nach, wie das mediale und gesellschaftliche Umfeld die Akzeptanz von Whistleblowing bedingt. Maddalena Fingerle, deren Roman gerade ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde, hat mit Kolleg:innen darüber diskutiert, was vigilante Autorschaft bedeuten könnte. In ihrem Beitrag fasst sie diese Gespräche zusammen und zeigt, wie Selbst- und Fremdbeobachtung die literarische Textproduktion konstituieren.

Diese Ausgabe beschließen zwei Berichte vergangener Veranstaltungen. Während Felix Grollmann die vielfältigen Anregungen schildert, die die Arbeit mit Gerichtsakten den Teilnnehmer:innen eines Workshops des Teilprojekts B02 bescherten, informiert Sébastien Demichel über den Workshop von B04, bei dem sie sich mit französischen Historiker:innen über die Pestabwehr im Ancien Régime austauschten

Zu den Mitteilungen

Announcement: Working Paper 03/2020 “A multidisciplinary review essay of Francisco Cantú’s book ‘The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border’, Vintage, London, 2019”

by Eveline Dürr and Catherine Whittaker (Ed.)

Cover Working Paper SFB 1369 ‚Vigilanzkulturen‘ 03/2020 (detail), Design: Sofarobotnik

What makes this review essay on Francisco Cantúʼs bestselling book on the US-Mexican border regimes uniquely thought-provoking – and, in equal measure, challenging – is the diversity of the disciplines involved and their relationship to the subject matter. Our working groupʼs aim has been to analyze notions of ‘subjectivation’, that is, the process of becoming a subject in relation to practices of vigilance. Thus, our working group explored what diff erent disciplines can gain from reflecting on and analyzing the same text and which aspects of it they consider particularly relevant to ongoing debates on vigilance and subjectivation. What kind of subtexts are brought to light by these divergent readings and what aspects do some disciplines stress that others would not have noticed in such detail?

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“I am conducting surveillance even as I research it”: Interview with Bryce Newell

by Catherine Whittaker and Alena Zelenskaia

Lecture by Bryce Newell “Radical Visibility. The Information Politics of Police on Camera” via Zoom at the Collaborative Research Centre 1369 “Cultures of Vigilance”, LMU Munich, 17.06.2020.

In June 2020, the “Cultures of Vigilance”-Team was honored to welcome Dr. Bryce Newell as a guest lecturer at the Collaborative Research Centre 1369. At a time when Black Lives Matter protests were making waves worldwide, his insights on racism, police, surveillance and sousveillance (counter-surveillance from below) could not have been more timely.

Assistant Professor Bryce Newell teaches at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon (USA). Beyond researching issues of privacy and surveillance, technologies, information law, and policy, Newell is also a documentary filmmaker, who successfully exhibited his work at museums and campuses in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands. In his workshop, “Radical Visibility: The information Politics of Police on Camera,” we were happy to see some parts of the feature-length documentary “The Tinaja Trail” and learn about US-Mexican border control techniques, migrant deaths and responses to them. Postdoctoral researcher Catherine Whittaker and PhD Student Alena Zelenskaia, who both study migration and control over it from an anthropological perspective, went deeper into the topic and interviewed Newell on his academic career path and ethnographic field.

Poster of Bryce Newell’s film “The Tinaja Trail” (2014). A trailer can be found here.

CW/AZ: What motivated you to study police surveillance, privacy and migrant experiences? How did your scientific interest in these and adjacent topics develop?

BN: My motivation to study migrant experiences and border enforcement began in early 2010, when I became aware of how many people were dying along the US-Mexico border while trying to cross clandestinely into the United States. This was a shocking revelation to me. Because of my background in documentary and video production, I wanted to produce something that would have the capacity to inform others. So, I started to produce a film on this topic, travelling to the border multiple times over the next few years. In 2014, as the film was being finished, I decided to continue working along the border with the migrants and migrant-aid communities I had gotten to know – this time by conducting qualitative social research that would help build my research agenda as a budding academic researcher. Those efforts initiated my ongoing collaboration with Ricardo Gomez and others (including Sara Vannini, Veronica Guajardo).

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