Globalization on the Line
Subtitle
Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders
This interdisciplinary collection brings together essays on the cultural effects of globalization at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders. Artists, activists and scholars from American Studies, anthropology, Chicano studies, English, folklore, history and political science examine a wide range of cultural practices in border areas, including cross-border shopping, migration and transnational media spectatorship. Contributors focus on a variety of border crossers and residents, such as Mexican migrants in the American Southwest, indigenous peoples in the Lake Ontario region, undocumented Chinese immigrants at the U.S.-Canada border, environmental groups in Arizona, NAFTA-displaced women laborers in Texas, squatter communities in Baja California and maquiladora workers in Chihuahua.
Bio
Claudia Sadowski-Smith is an associate professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
In this collection Sadowski-Smith has brought together an exciting range of essays by scholars, artists, and activists on culture and globalization. The strength of this collection is in the essays; it is not so much a 'new take' on globalization and culture as it is a close look at a variety of cultural practices in which the effects of globalization are especially visible.
Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"
