Ieva Jusionyte (Books)

Ieva Jusionyte Books

Ieva Jusionyte is a social anthropologist whose work delves into the politics of injury and rescue within militarized borderlands. Her research critically examines how media shapes perceptions of crime and how emergency responders navigate borders to save lives. She investigates the complex interplay between journalistic narratives and the lived realities found at the intersections of different cultures and political systems. Jusionyte offers a distinctive perspective on the challenges inherent in documenting life and work in dynamic and often precarious environments.

Exit Wounds

347 pages
13 hours of reading

"Guns are relational: they can be tools of violence or of protection. Bullets injure individuals and communities, creating collective damage. In the United States, gun violence has reached alarming levels, but the effects of firearms sold in this country don't stop at its borders. American guns have torn the social fabric of Mexican society in ways that have entangled the lives of citizens on both sides of the border-Mexicans and Americans-in a vicious circle of violence. While migrants and refugees are fleeing north, seeking safety in the United States, Exit Wounds follows the guns going south, from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. Through stories of people who live and work with guns on both sides of the border and either side of the law-a businessman who smuggles guns, a girl who becomes a trained assassin, two federal agents who try to stop gun traffickers, a journalist reporting on organized crime-the book grapples with US complicity in violence south of the border and examines the impact of American guns on both countries"--