Savage frontier : making news and security on the Argentine border

301 Pages·2015·2.481 MB·English

by  Jusionyte, Ieva

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Savage Frontier
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Savage Frontier
Making News and Security
on the Argentine Border
Ieva Jusionyte
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jusionyte, Ieva, 1983– author.
Savage frontier : making news and security on the
Argentine border / Ieva Jusionyte.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-520-28351-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-520-28647-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-520-95937-8 (ebook)
1. Crime—Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and
Paraguay) 2. Crime—Press coverage—Tri-Border
Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) 3. Security,
International—Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and
Paraguay) 4. Border security—Tri-Border Area
(Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) I. Title.
HV6878.5.J87 2015
364.1098—dc23
2014048461
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To my family
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Hide-and-Seek 1
1 Breaking the Code of Silence 37
2 Dispatches from the Wild 60
3 Global Village of Outlaws 98
4 Small Town, Big Hell 132
5 On and Off the Record 173
6 Blurred Boundaries 201
Conclusion: Ethnography of In/visibility 237
Notes 249
References 265
Index 281
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