Author: Marko Tocilovac

Marko Tocilovac holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) and is an associate researcher at the Centre Norbert Elias (EHESS/CNRS; Marseille, France). His research is focused on borders, migration and the state. For his thesis investigation, he has been doing fieldwork mainly in San Diego (CA, USA), where he examined the way the U.S.-Mexico border is shaped as a specific political space by a heterogeneous assemblage of local and national actors.

Marko Tocilovac

Making Remoteness in the Sonoran desert

November, 2016 / By Marko Tocilovac

When we think about deserts, we usually imagine them as quintessentially remote. We tend to take their remoteness as primordial […]