Post/Humanitarian Border Politics

Abstract

This chapter highlights the ways in which the Sonoran borderzone involves ‘another politics of life’. This alternative politics potentially transforms the violence of unequal relations that privilege some forms of life over others, by engaging a politics of mutually supportive life. Post/humanitarian border politics is a field of contested action that has ‘the human’ as a political stake, and enacts a fight for people, through things, in terms that can transform places. This is of critical significance under conditions whereby some people are ‘left to die’. Post/humanitarian border politics in this regard affirms life in the face of a lethal politics of life and death. The Sonoran borderzone is in this regard a site of ‘multiple realities’, rather than a singular site of domination.