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The Boston Globe, July 18, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600118058354-FI5OTTGJU602ZDZDHRVU/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+5.13.40+PM.png Media - Fractures, trauma, amputations: What medics see when they rescue migrants at the border Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600111115922-V2XWDTFQSFPTVW3IEYLM/Screen+Shot+2020-09-13+at+5.43.53+PM.png Media - What I Learned as an EMT at the Border Wall The Atlantic, October 20, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600359122883-HSZK7HQIVNVUOSJGSHYG/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-15%2Bat%2B12.47.59%2BPM.jpg Media - Threshold' Explores Work of First Responders Along U.S.-Mexico Border KQED Forum, December 11, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600197229149-MMHLFW495YBZBE5LEUJR/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-15%2Bat%2B12.52.18%2BPM.jpg Media - What Emergency Responders Face on the US-Mexico Border The Takeaway, WNYC, November 20, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600197255531-QML4GSPKPL34D7TDHZJ6/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-15%2Bat%2B1.00.56%2BPM.jpg Media - THRESHOLD Book Launch Harvard Book Store, November 9, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600189561697-0YAA2Q1PHIKP50A0Y47K/Screen+Shot+2020-09-15+at+1.05.25+PM.png Media - Daily life and death on the U.S.-Mexico border The Harvard Gazette, January 9, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600197320664-3ET07M44JCUDAF2K6KWL/IMG_1649.jpg Media - Pain on the Border: Fieldnotes from a Migrant Aid Center in Nogales, Mexico ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Winter 2017 https://www.ievajusionyte.com/threshold daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1595771674440-Y9X5EY57Q9YM3E3FY8EM/threshold_cover.jpg Threshold Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the wall, and put out fires that know no national boundaries. Paramedics and firefighters on both sides of the border are tasked with saving lives and preventing disasters in the harsh terrain at the center of divisive national debates. Ieva Jusionyte’s firsthand experience as an emergency responder provides the background for her gripping examination of the politics of injury and rescue in the militarized region surrounding the US-Mexico border. Operating in this area, firefighters and paramedics are torn between their mandate as frontline state actors and their responsibility as professional rescuers, between the limits of law and pull of ethics. From this vantage they witness what unfolds when territorial sovereignty, tactical infrastructure, and the natural environment collide. Jusionyte reveals the binational brotherhood that forms in this crucible to stand in the way of catastrophe. Through beautiful ethnography and a uniquely personal perspective, Threshold provides a new way to understand politicized issues ranging from border security and undocumented migration to public access to healthcare today. Read an excerpt https://www.ievajusionyte.com/savagefrontier daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1597768131315-JRMH046BS2EQDMPNO72A/Manuscript%2Bcover.jpg SavageFrontier This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. One of the major "hot borders" in the Western Hemisphere, the Triple Frontera is associated with drug and human trafficking, contraband, money laundering, and terrorism. It's also a place where residents, particularly on the Argentine side, are subjected to increased governmental control and surveillance. How does a scholar tell a story about a place characterized by illicit international trading, rampant violence, and governmental militarization? Jusionyte inventively centered her ethnographic fieldwork on a community of journalists who investigate and report on crime and violence in the region. Through them she learned that a fair amount of petty, small-scale illicit trading goes unreported—a consequence of a community invested in promoting the idea that the border is a secure place that does not warrant militarized attention. The author's work demonstrates that while media is often seen as a powerful tool for spreading a sense of danger and uncertainty, sensationalizing crime and violence, and creating moral panics, journalists can actually do the opposite. Those who selectively report on illegal activities use the news to tell particular types of stories in an attempt to make their communities look and ultimately be more secure. Read an excerpt https://www.ievajusionyte.com/public-anthropology daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600273003267-S3KH4G8CQMELWM44ELXT/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-14%2Bat%2B5.55.22%2BPM.jpg Public Anthropology In my role as the editor of the California Series in Public Anthropology, I am interested in publishing books that use ethnography as a mode of inquiry to tell stories that illuminate social problems through writing that appeals to a wide audience. Books in the series intervene in ongoing public debates on issues that matter to society and launch new ones. As Wole Soyinka, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, once said, "A book if necessary should be a hammer, a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world." The series was founded by Robert Borofsky, the Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology, in 2001, and includes some of the most influential ethnographies published since (see full list here). Prospective authors are encouraged to send their inquiries directly to me (ieva_jusionyte@brown.edu) or to UC Press anthropology editor Kate Marshall (kmarshall@ucpress.edu). Guidelines for preparing a book proposal can be found here. https://www.ievajusionyte.com/exitwounds daily 0.75 2024-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600193627652-DI6JRJA0A8DRSE6XHL02/IMG_8795.jpg ExitWounds Gun buyback campaign. Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, May 2, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600193447542-46AX7BB9ICA3XIJEH112/DSCF0777.jpg ExitWounds Disarm Mechanized II, 2012-2014, by Pedro Reyes. Peabody Essex Museum. May 1, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1600198697033-T72H0RYGR54LOFH20D5T/P1030155.jpg ExitWounds Mural in memory of Ayotzinapa 43. Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México, 2018. https://www.ievajusionyte.com/archive daily 0.75 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0773a45020365922fffb0a/1623333147115-YE58RIP9WXRJY0BLMQRA/FE1523C9-9282-4A9B-A4F5-6AFDC3C425A6.jpeg Border Injury Archive - Security buildup on the U.S.-Mexico border, including the construction of ever taller and longer fences, the practices of “chase and scatter” employed by Border Patrol agents, and other forms of militarized policing, have resulted in at least 7,500 people dying during their attempts to cross it over the past two decades. Even more migrants have been injured during the journey, yet there is no public accounting of border-related trauma. Border Injury Archive is a documentary project that aims to collect, systematize, and analyze data on border crosser injuries. It draws on public records requests from federal agencies, information from consulates, hospitals, humanitarian aid organizations working with migrants and other sources, to create a public database that will provide researchers, policymakers, and the public with a better understanding of the impact of border militarization on human lives. 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