The Border and its Bodies, A Book to Understand the World
A review of university presses publications highlights Tom Sheridan's The Border and Its Bodies (with collaborations from Robin Reineke and Rebecca Crocker) as one of the books that help understand the world in these times of post-truth, misinformation and constant attacks on science.
“Unfortunately a lot of the public debates and a lot of the public narratives about immigration are very light on facts,” says Kathryn Conrad, director of the University of Arizona Press. “So we felt like it was important to show one of the many books we publish about immigration and the US-Mexico border that is based on research.
And in this case, The Border and Its Bodies really is unique in offering an on-the-ground look by people who live and work at the border at the human impact of the border crossing. Frankly nothing about what it’s like at the US-Mexico border makes its way into the news. Only snapshots make it. And for those of us who live here — Tucson is just 60 miles north of the border — we see a lot more up close. This book includes the voices of scholars and practitioners and ranchers and residents to take a really up close look at what the impact of the increasingly militarized border zone has on the human being.”