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This talk examines the collaboration between Mexico and the United States to implement surveillance infrastructures that range from broken window’s policing to drug prohibition policies to secure the city today.
I analyze how security infrastructures from the United States that meant to police racialized communities in the US, worked in Mexico City despite Mexico having different processes and histories of racialization. I demonstrate that these security infrastructures function in Mexico City because Mexico and the US share similar carceral knowledges. By examining the history of securitization across geographies, temporalities, and technologies, I argue how security infrastructures establish a criminal legal system beyond the legal text itself.
This talk is based on my dissertation project that examines how life is secured through the death of others in Mexico City’s increasingly surveilled and militarized urban geographies.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
3 p.m.
Zoom link: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/97978327728
Contact:
Jenny Oseen | oseejs@uleth.ca | 403-329-2551