Environmental Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border:

Straddling the Wall: Comparative Framing of Trump’s Border Wall in U.S. & Mexican Newspapers

“…Borders, when conceptualized as mere divisive boundaries, are arguably normative, fixed, and reductive. Thus, many academics go beyond a line-in-the-sand approach and theorize borders as dominant discursive processes that apportion physical territory, separating people from one another, and emphasize lived experiences that examine borders through lenses of (im)mobility which connect populations and communities in border areas (Agnew, 2008;Anzaldúa, 2012;Brown, 2010;Coronado & Mumme, 2020;Keck & Clua-Losada, 2021;Sarabia, 2020). The goal of the current study is to build on theorizations of borders as dominant discourses and address borders as equivocally complex, while at the same time acknowledging physical borders as spaces of dwelling and experiential impact, rather than national zones (Agnew, 2008).…”