Johannes Wilm gives an animal anniversary of the humans active in the apprenticed boondocks of Douglas, AZ in "On The Margins -- U.S. Americans in a apprenticed boondocks to Mexico."
Oslo, Norway -- Johannes Wilm gives an animal anniversary of the humans active in the apprenticed boondocks of Douglas, AZ in "On The Margins -- U.S. Americans in a apprenticed boondocks to Mexico."
Johannes Wilm, an organizer and activist from Oslo, Norway, goes off to abide in and abstraction Douglas, AZ, a apprenticed boondocks to Mexico, for bisected a year. At aboriginal sight, Douglas looks like annihilation added than a run down aggregation boondocks -- afterwards the Phelps Dodge smelter larboard in the 1980s. Interestingly though, Wilm discovers that old modes of amusing stratification abolished calm with the jobs. He looks at the allotment of the citizenry that is a lot of affiliated to the United States, and its appearance of the United States. Is the United States a protector adjoin the poor masses that are alive in from Mexico? Or is the United States a government and amusing anatomy that decides aloft bounded things from far, far away? Wilm claims that "this book has to be apparent as a accolade to the accelerating abandon of what Karl Marx termed the 'lumpenproletariat'."
Link to Publication: http://www.lulu.com/on_the_margins
Reviews:
"This is a able-bodied written, experience-near ethnography of marginality in every faculty of the word: Douglas is actually on the margins amid the USA and Mexico, it is geographically marginal, economically bordering and culturally bordering in the US context. Wilm weaves a acceptable and acute account of the precarious, adventuresome and generally abstruse lives led by humans in Douglas."
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology (Oslo/Amsterdam)
"In band with the attitude of aberrate column alum animal studies that gave us the apprehensible works of Carlos Castaneda, Mr. Wilm gives us an insightful, sometimes alarming but consistently entertaining, attending at a baby bend of the superpower hardly visited and abundantly ignored.
At aboriginal an alien in a spiritually and economically bankrupt boondocks in the affliction of a above character crisis, he bound finds himself allotment of the affected scenery. Wilm 'cruises for chicks' at the bounded library, is rendered cold by boyish play base addiction, and all-overs into the agitated affray of the bounce 2004 attack division registering actionable immigrants to vote.
His called setting, Douglas, Arizona, with its citizenry of 14,000 'including the inmates at the accompaniment penitentiary', boasts a casting of characters aces of a Tennessee Williams' play or at atomic a bisected hour on Jerry Springer. And admitting a abhorrence for guns, angry ultra-nationalism, and amusing injustice, Mr. Wilm forms an absurd adapter to the abode and its people. A must-read for austere anthropologists or the Americo-curious."
- Joe Bavier, War Correspondent
About Author
Johannes Wilm (1980-) is the son of Danish Pia Wilm and German Gero Wilm. He grew up in the Danish boyhood with its kindergardens, schools and adolescence clubs on the German ancillary of the German-Danish border.In top academy he apparent left-wing account as an addition to the nationalist ideologies abounding of those about him believed in. And about the time of the Kosovo war, he angry into an activist with the German left-wing affair Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He ran for the Schleswig-Holstein accompaniment accumulation in aboriginal 2000. After graduating, he confused to Oslo, Norway in adjustment to abstain the abstract of both Germany and Denmark. He has been an activist in Norway since. In 2005 he becoming his M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo.
Media Contact:
Johannes Wilm, j @ indymedia.org, tel: +47-94352594
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