Eveline Dürr’s research while affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and other places

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Publications (26)


Dirty Borders, Clean Women: A Feminist Decolonial Perspective on Mexican-American Women's Watchfulness and Security
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June 2024

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Conflict and Society

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Eveline Dürr

How do Mexican-American women in the US-Mexico borderlands respond to insecurity relating to multiple forms of discrimination? The present article compares the experiences of women of different class and ethnic backgrounds to analyze their gendered watchfulness in response to the racialized and classed anti-immigrant vigilance of privileged Anglo-Americans. We argue that, in a context of ongoing coloniality, maintaining an exploitable racialized and gendered sub-worker class requires conjuring the illusion of the border as a necessary security feature. Mexican-American women's watchfulness strategies, including professionalism, beauty practices, and artistic performances, instead makes visible the ways in which the border as the margin of the state actively produces insecurity and violence. Viewing security from the margins of the margins allows us to expand and decolonize previous understandings.

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No Feierabend after Fieldwork?: Reflections in Retrospect

February 2024

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As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next moment of disclosure. Yet what lies in the gaps and pauses of fieldwork? The contributions in this volume dedicated to anthropologist Martin Sökefeld explore methodological and ethical dimensions of multi-sided ethnographic research. Based on diverse cases ranging from hobbies over kinship ties to political activism, the contributors show how personal relationships, passions and commitments drive ethnographers in and beyond research, shaping the knowledge they create together with others.


Conocimientos y vigilancia contra la violencia racista y colonialista en la zona fronteriza México–Estados Unidos

January 2024

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El manejo de los recursos asociados al conocimiento es uno de los temas más controvertidos y discutidos de nuestro tiempo. Los debates y conflictos globales sobre el aprovechamiento, la transferencia, la monopolización, la democratización y la diversificación de los saberes siempre están vinculados con cuestiones de poder social, político y económico. Las nuevas tecnologías y los nuevos formatos mediáticos permiten, por un lado, un mejor acceso al conocimiento como recurso y, por tanto, un mayor grado de participación política y social de sectores más amplios de la población. Al mismo tiempo, la valorización de conocimientos por parte de las corporaciones globales, por ejemplo, a través de la adquisición, a veces ilegal, de datos o el reclamo y la imposición de derechos de propiedad intelectual, promueve la formación de monopolios de saber que sirven a fines comerciales y exacerban las desigualdades sociales. Además, la diversidad cultural y lingüística de América Latina obliga a un cuestionamiento fundamental de las epistemologías eurocéntricas y a una reflexión general sobre las dimensiones culturales de la producción, la transformación y el almacenamiento del conocimiento y sobre la transformación digital. Las contribuciones a este volumen abordan desde distintas perspectivas disciplinarias y nacionales los procesos de producción, transformación y almacenamiento del conocimiento en América Latina. Se toman en cuenta sus múltiples articulaciones y las dinámicas de la producción de saberes en contextos coloniales y postcoloniales. El volumen representa una importante contribución a los debates globales sobre la interacción entre conocimiento, poder y transformación digital.


Figure 1: Mural in Chicano Park, San Diego.
Figure 2: 'Tatjana P.' in photos taken in 1960 when she was processed after her arrest by the police. In 1963, she was put out on the wanted list.
Figure 3: Hohenfurter Liederbuch depicting a man (maybe the sinner) held captive by a multi-eyed devil, 15 th century, Vyšší Brod Monastery, ms 8b, fol. 78 r .
Figure 4: Documents collected by Liliya and the 'Professor' for the German Consulate in Kyiv.
Figure 5: Rudolf Ellenrieder: Oath Day in Ulm (1823), engraving from a gouache of 1650.

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Becoming Vigilant Subjects

September 2023

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How does vigilance affect the formation of the self and how does this process vary across different time periods? And conversely, how do watchful individuals engage with, and potentially change, social situations at specific moments and within particular constellations? How might these processes of subject formation affect an individual’s understanding of themselves?








Citations (15)


... As a response, marginalized individuals themselves become watchful and employ watchfulness as a strategy to cope with their experiences of harassment and discrimination. As we have shown elsewhere (Dürr et al. 2023;Whittaker et al. 2023), these processes are particularly prominent in the US-Mexico borderlands and foster political subject formation toward empowerment and decolonization of people who are under observation and discriminated against. Their counterwatchfulness serves to establish a sense of security for themselves and for their community and thus challenge attempts to dominate and discipline them. ...

Reference:

Dirty Borders, Clean Women: A Feminist Decolonial Perspective on Mexican-American Women's Watchfulness and Security
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

... Much of this labor was in gathering data on wild boar to inform their eradication-finding their locations, luring them to baiting sites to shoot them, and scanning for diseases that could motivate a more wholesale eradication effort. The highly proactive surveillance for threats around wild boars as a species here enacts a so-called vigilance regime of monitoring with multiple eyes and ears (Haggerty and Trottier, 2013;Ivasiuc et al., 2022). That these eyes and ears needed to be those of hunters, who may at times have a complicated relationship with the state, formed our study's topic. ...

Introduction: The Power and Productivity of Vigilance Regimes

Conflict and Society

... The terms used serve as empirical starting points to think further about theoretical conceptualizations from a security-from-the-margins perspective. "Being trucha", for example, as a form of counter-watchfulness of female Mexican migrants in the United States (Whittaker and Dürr 2022), "lakou security" as a long-term construction of symbolic kinship of the Haitian-Dominican border population (Triml-Chifflard), Colombian peasant notions of a "quiet life" or "dignified life" (Naucke), but also the sense of "feeling at home" through the care and relationship maintenance of Portuguese prison inmates (Frois) are all expressions of the normative con-cepts of marginalized actors and the way in which a good life and the socio-cultural practices involved are imagined. ...

Vigilance, Knowledge, and De/colonization: Protesting While Latin@ in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Conflict and Society

... Angelini's (2020) examination of favela tours accentuated the nuanced challenges faced by these guides, as they attempt to strike a balance between authentic representation and the commodification of their environments. Further, Dürr et al. (2021) in their ethnographic study in Mexico City's Tepito, showed how guides can positively portray deprived areas without depoliticizing them, contextualizing local achievements within city politics and using historical narratives to emphasize the area's significance. ...

Recasting urban imaginaries: politicized temporalities and the touristification of a notorious Mexico City barrio
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  • June 2021

International Journal of Tourism Cities

... If cities are already conceived as ecosystems (Acosta et al. 2020) then such consideration should play a role in governance models (Wilkinson et al. 2013). For this to happen in a productive manner, a novel framework is necessary to incorporate other-than-human life forms and materials as urban stakeholders. ...

Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City

Urban Research & Practice

... Na medida em que todos os seres dependem de insumos para a sua sobrevida no planeta, o que inclui o ar, a água e alimentos, o Comum desponta como um postulado que recobra da consciência humana o significado da expressão coletiva em qualquer que seja a organização social imposta. Desta acepção, que parece elementar surgem os problemas éticos relacionados aos limites da apropriação privada dos bens no âmbito do capitalismo (DÜRR et al., 2020). Essa persistente questão acerca da divisão dos bens materiais e sua vinculação aos modos em que são apropriados rebate com mais intensidade sob as novas razões do mundo estruturadas pelo neoliberalismo (DARDOT e LAVAL, 2017). ...

Urban ethics: Towards a research agenda on cities, ethics and normativity

City Culture and Society

... Altamirano, 2022b;Dürr, 2012a). Building on this point, Dürr et al. (2020) highlighted that marketing urban poverty and violence as a city brand could exacerbate existing inequalities. Research also shows that in many touristic informal settlements, local residents often do not fully engage with or benefit from tourism (Koens and Thomas, 2015;Marschall, 2013). ...

Brokers and Tours: Selling Urban Poverty and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
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  • July 2019

Space and Culture

... Illicit actors in Tepito have negotiated acceptance by local authorities for the sale of illegal goods by regularly paying them off (Konove 2018;Maerk 2010). Therefore, there is a pervasive distrust of outsiders, and a vigorous pride of place among the residents (Konove 2018;Walker 2008;Vodopivec and Dürr 2019). We liken this to the cognitive maps that residents possessed about the characteristics of their neighborhood and social ties engendered from the intimately shared knowledge that separates them from others (Suttles 1972, 36). ...

Barrio Bravo Transformed: Tourism, Cultural Politics, and Image Making in Mexico City
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  • May 2019

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

... Politically motivated artists embracing the technological advancements of the late nineteenth century hold a different view of avant-garde, distinct from the Western perspective. There is considerable conviction that the different localities, cultures, and histories of a transnational environment will engender different articulations of Modernism, thus reconceptualizing Modernism [22,23]. ...

Brokers and tours: the commodification of urban poverty and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
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  • April 2019

... However, not everyone benefits equally, and some vulnerable groups may be excluded from these advantages, which leads to the phenomenon of "urban inequality" (Ezbakhe et al., 2019;Fang et al., 2002). Unfortunately, rapid urban development has led to poverty (Jaffe et al., 2020), housing shortages (Rodríguez-Pose & Storper, 2020), traffic congestion (Vermeiren et al., 2015), and environmental pollution (Long et al., 2022), which disproportionately affect vulnerable groups. Therefore, achieving fair and sustainable urban development, addressing urban inequality, and minimizing the negative impact on vulnerable groups are crucial global challenges. ...

What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation
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  • March 2019

Urban Studies