SPAN 224 - Migration, Border Regimes, and Transborder Aesthetics: The U.S.–Mexico Border
This graduate seminar examines migration as a structuring force of cultural production at the U.S.–Mexico border. Approaching the border as an aesthetic, political, and epistemological regime, the course analyzes how literature, visual art, film, performance, sound, and digital practices emerge from and intervene in systems of mobility, surveillance, control, and displacement. Drawing on critical migration studies, border theory, decolonial thought, political philosophy, and aesthetic theory, the seminar treats cultural production not just as representation but as a site of theoretical knowledge. While centered on the U.S.–Mexico border, the course situates this region within broader global debates on migration and sovereignty.
Bernadette Ramirez
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