ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the political subjectivity and agency of a massive, sprawling, and growing transborder community that links Mesoamericans from Chiapas and Oaxaca all the way north with families living and working in California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. The political subjectivity of campesinos, farmers, and farm workers is constantly enunciated in poignant declarations like the slogan of a three year-long strike by Triqui and Mixtec berry pickers in Washington: "Sin tierra. Sin papeles. Sin miedo". The relevance of ecology for understanding the state of exception on the border and beyond should be clear. The rise of transborder Indigenous political subjectivities is evident in the multi-ethnic membership of South Central Farmers but is also instructive as an instance in which the food autonomy movement challenged the construction of property itself as a legal and political category.
