Borderlands Landscape Ethnography: Competing Futurities in the Sky Islands, EASA conference, Belfast, 26-29th July 2022

From March to May 2022, I conducted the first phase of a landscape ethnography in the Madrean Sky Islands during which I recorded sound and video, made photographs, and interviewed local stakeholders through walk-and-talk on-site interviews. In my presentation at the 17th European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Belfast, I outlined my research framework, shared some first visual impressions, and presented a short water portrait of the Sonoita Creek, a tributary of the Santa Cruz River – one of the two watersheds I am studying in the Entre Rios: Surveillance and Futurity in the US-Mexico Borderlands project.

The presentation was part of the panel, “Imagining Alternative Data Futures.”