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The world’s deadliest land migration route--the Sonoran Desert--is a land of open graves. Shared between Palestine and the Sonoran Desert are patterns of social ordering and othering, circuits and flows of surveillance, the siphoning of pasts and the denial of futures by settler colonial thieves.

Against the constellation of violences of the US/Mexico border, it is necessary to untangle the coded language of slaughter, technologies and intricate web of stakeholders, as lifeblood of the border-military-industrial complex.

Ultimately, the security regimes operate in the interest of ceaseless shareholder profits; the Nakba is always ongoing. In this workshop, we will work to better understand this imperial insatiability, and, co-conspire forms of resistance to the war machine.

Danika Cooper is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where the core of her research centers on the geopolitics of scarcity, alternative water ontologies, and designs for resiliency in the global aridlands. She earned an MA in Design Studies and Master of Landscape Studies from Harvard University.

Taylor Miller is a researcher and writer based in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Arizona and is a university lecturer and a research fellow with the London-based Corruption Tracker/Shadow World Investigations, documenting the violence of the global arms trade.