by Nargol Ghazian (ComSciCon-GTA 2020)

Before my first visit to the region, most of how I imagined the American Southwest derived from classic western movies I watched with my grandfather as a child or, most recently, HBO’s dystopian-series Westworld. But upon arriving in the region, I quickly realised it is much more than a wild-west-themed playground, despite what the TV show may have us...