3-0240 OLD THREATS, NEW GUISES: SECUROCATIC WARS AND THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE IN THE AMERICAS

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Elana Zilberg (University of California San Diego) and Mariana Mora (Tulane University)

Chairs: Mariana Mora (CIESAS-Mexico City) and Elana Zilberg (University of California San Diego)

Discussants: Susan A Phillips (Pitzer) and Elana Zilberg (University of California San Diego)

08:00

Multicultural Citizens or National Security Threats? Afro-Descendants and Counternarcotics Policing In Nicaragua

Jennifer A Goett (Michigan State University)

08:15

The Face of a Traficante: Racialization and Drug-Trafficking In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

R Benjamin Penglase (Loyola University Chicago)

08:30

Transnational Realities: Television, Testimony, and the Emergence Gangs As a U.S. Foreign Policy Target

Connie P McGuire (University of California Irvine)

08:45

Object Populations: Pacification and Play In Rio De Janeiro

Alessandro M Angelini (CUNY Graduate Center)

09:00

Nuevos Narcos/Narcos Nuevos: Border Drug Trafficking Organizations and the War On Drugs

Santiago I Guerra (University of Texas)

09:15

Discussant

Susan A Phillips (Pitzer)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Break

10:00

Policing Dominican Deportees: U.S. Crimmigration Practices and the Creation of New Penalized Spaces Overseas

Nina F Siulc (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

10:15

Traces of (Il)Legibility: Lynching, Criminality and Racialized Subjects In Mexico

Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda (New School for Social Research)

10:30

Normalizing the Exceptional: State Security Policies, Human Rights and the "War On Organized Crime" In La Montaña, Guerrero, Mexico

Mariana Mora (CIESAS-Mexico City)

10:45

Ethnicization of Vulnerability: The Articulation of Multiculturalism and Colombia's National Project of 'democratic Security'

Roosbelinda Cardenas (University of California Santa Cruz)

11:00

Genealogies of Terror: Racial Liberalism and the Emergence of the National Security Welfare State

Mohan Ambikaipaker (Tulane University)

11:15

Discussant

Elana Zilberg (University of California San Diego)

11:30

Discussion

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