Ieva Jusionyte presents "Exit Wounds" in conversation w/ Nicole Fabricant

Ieva Jusionyte presents "Exit Wounds" in conversation w/ Nicole Fabricant

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Tuesday, October 8th 2024
7:00 pm
Red Emma's
An account that turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.

American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.

An expert work of narrative nonfiction, EXIT WOUNDS provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, EXIT WOUNDS_ _expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

Ieva Jusionyte is an anthropologist and associate professor at Brown University. A former paramedic and Harvard Radcliffe and Fulbright fellow, she is the author of the award-winning THRESHOLD: EMERGENCY RESPONDERS ON THE US-MEXICO BORDER.

Nicole Fabricant is Professor of Anthropology at Towson University in Maryland. She is the author of MOBILIZING BOLIVIA'S DISPLACED: INDIGENOUS POLITICS AND THE STRUGGLE OVER LAND and FIGHTING TO BREATHE, as well as co-executive editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas.

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