Close-Ups of Postnationalism: Reports from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Abstract

Postnational globalization invents forms of production and creates urban landscapes to contain them. One locus for this process is the indistinct border zone between the United States and Mexico. The forbidding physical character of the region, and its lack of conventional resources, has been counterbalanced by locational advantages for industry and trade, tourism and recreation. The borderlands exemplify forces contributing to an evolving marginal political ecology linking nation-states at unequal levels of development. In the south (Mexico), it combines rapid industrialization with a flood of youthful economic refugees seeking work in a set of instant border megacities with horrendous levels of pollution. Equally rapid growth is found in retirement havens to the north (U.S.), superimposed on an older stratum of border cattle ranches, timber concessions, tourism centers, and mineral claims. This special collection provides in-depth snapshots of selected features of the western half of the 2,000-mile bo...

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