Patrolling the Homeland: Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages

Cover
Half Title
Endorsements
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Patrolling the Homeland: Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages
	The Struggle for Acceptance
	Morality and Comfort
	Why Mobilize? A Brief History of Opposition
	Positionality
	Structure of the Book
1. Border Watch
	Searching and Hope
	Militias, Vigilantes, and the State
	Stigma
	Media and Image
	The Operations
	Military Influence
	Away from the Border
	Border Watch
2. Morality and Comfort
	Comfort
	Moral Breakdowns
	Discomfort and the Response
	Imperatives – External and Internal – the Basis of Comfort
	Ethical Affordances – The Internal Imperative
	Moral Assemblages – The External Imperatives
	The Power of the Assemblage
	The Moral World
3. Ethnicity at the Nation's Frontier
	Contemporary Concerns
	Crossing Borders
	A Border Separates "Culture"
	Assimilation
	Freedom of Movement – a Privilege of Hierarchy
	Controlling National Space
	Ethnicity on the Border
4. Experience, Narrative, and the Moral Imperative to Act
	The Narrative World of Border Watch
	An Underlying Truth
	Narrative
	Experience
	The Failings of the State
	Evaluation and Justification – the Bounds of Assemblages
	The Imperative and the Citizen-Soldier
5. Embodied Narrative on the Border
	The Purse
	An Unknown but Knowable Enemy
	Chasing Fire
	Authority
	Contradiction and the Immorality of the Other
	Rape Trees and Immorality
6. The Moral Citizen, Virtue Ethics, and the Internal Ought
	Personhood
	The Self
	The Immoral Other
	Incorporating Virtue Ethics
	Good Guy with a Gun
	Doing What One Ought, Not What One Wants
7. The Comfort to Act
	Enjoyment and the Moral Imperative
	Protecting Border Watch – The Power of Conformity
	Fitting the Mold through Narrations of the Self
	Danger and Bonding: the Enjoyment of Missions
	Camaraderie
	The Shifting of Morals
A World Without Self-Reflection
	The Danger of Moral Assemblages
	The Future of Border Militias
Bibliography
Index