@article{ref1,
title="The face of the state on the U.S.-Mexico border",
journal="Emotion, space and society",
year="2019",
author="De La Ossa, Jessica and Miller, Jacob C.",
volume="31",
number="",
pages="140-147",
abstract="In recent years, feminist geopolitics and the turns toward emotional and affective geography have resulted in new perspectives on theories of power, embodiment and subjectivity. Other recent trends have considered non-human objects as important for state theory, insofar as state practice often relies upon the force of objects in everyday life. This article works to bring together object-oriented and emotional geographies for a new perspective on the state. It does so by drawing on another theoretical tradition that has been less familiar for political geography: psychoanalytic theory. <br><br>FINDINGS from ethnographic research with residents living near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona help illuminate the presence and spectral circulation of what we call the &quot;face of the state&quot; as a psycho-emotional entity in everyday life for these residents. Surveillance objects enter the psyche through the face of the state, insofar as they are imagined and felt as a visual and embodied experience. The force of the object, then, extends beyond its own materiality and into the psycho-social dimensions of life through which state power operates, thereby empowering the border to gaze at the subject population in powerful new ways.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1755-4586",
doi="10.1016/j.emospa.2018.02.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2018.02.009"
}