Mean Green - Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum (Hardcover, New edition)

The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life along the border through the different forms in which they represent themselves and how they are viewed by others. Mean Green: Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum presents an analysis of the museum that deploys theoretical approaches in the disciplines of visual and cultural studies, border studies, ethnic studies, discourse analysis, museology, and spatial theory. The objectives of this book are to study the varied representations, that is, the hypermasculine male and the disenfranchised "illegal" immigrant, that reinforce and challenge the dominant discourse present in the hegemonic state; to analyze why the museum represents a homotopia within the limits of a heterotopia; to learn how the museum creates imagined communities through the use of its historical patrimony; to observe the practices in relations of power by employing the notion of a panopticon; and, lastly, to understand how the museum is providing a commodification of symbols to promote the hegemonic state.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics, 4
Release date:	June 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Gabriela E. Moreno
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	140
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-3525-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Religious groups Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-3525-6
Barcode:	9781433135255

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