A Typology of US-Mexico Border Surveillance and Its Counter-Imaginaries
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https://counter-imaginary.org/project/contested-digital-borders-from-juarez-to-guizhouAbstract
While the technologies used for surveillance at the US-Mexico border may appear impenetrable, artists and activists offer vital counter-imaginaries and forms of resistance. This typology gathers works that counter or turn the camera lens back onto the surveillance apparatus that operates underground, on terrestrial land, and in the sky. The author prompts audiences to consider how uses of technology sustain violence and policing in this geography, and to reflect upon how border surveillance technologies contribute to an illusion of sovereignty – one that is not insurmountable, but contested and crossed through.
Published by A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times, UC Berkeley, 2026.
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