Borders in Globalization
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Item History and North American borderlands: Insights and approaches(University of Victoria, 2024) Widdis, Randy W.; Atkinson, David; Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel; Takai, Yukari; Terrazas y Basante, Marcela; Nieto Camacho, Ana Lilia; Hogue, MichelBorders are historically contingent and evolve through processes of bordering. Their meanings are constantly changing along with political, economic, and social developments taking place both externally between and internally within states. Like borders, borderlands must also be situated in their temporal and geographical contexts in order to investigate the relations between territory, identity, and sovereignty. The chapters in this collection present selective historical interpretations of borders and borderlands that focus primarily on North American borderlands, emphasizing flows, sovereignty, and indigeneity, three key themes of the Borders in Globalization program.Item Erasing the Line: Mapping Indigenous Community across the US-Canada Border(2023-05-30) Herb, Guntram H.; Falardeau, Vincent; Talano, KathrynNorth American settler colonialism is not a historical event, but an ongoing process that strives to silence the continued presence of the original Indigenous inhabitants in the United States and Canada. The map, Erasing the Line, attempts to challenge the primacy of existing sovereign states by showing contiguous Indigenous community across the US–Canada border. This subversive visualization is inspired by nationalist maps and uses official census data to challenge the settler state narrative from within.Item A World Anthology of Border Poetry: Blurred and Political(University of Victoria, 2022) Sardzoska, Natasha; Brunet-Jailly, EmmanuelThis multilingual anthology presents the works of poets from around the world, showcasing the state of the art and distinct contributions of poetry to literary criticism and dissent. Beyond the social sciences and humanities, the book points to the importance of poetry for the fields of inquiry into borderlands and frontiers as intersectional and relational human experiences. The poems invite the reader to explore innovative approaches to reading and writing borders, those that transcend language within their conventional semiology of boundary transgression.Item Borders and Bordering in Atlantic Canada(2021-09-25) Konrad, Victor; Widdis, Randy W.; Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel; Collins, Jeffrey F.; Hinton, Lucy; Ircha, Michael C.; Jagger, Jaiya; Musabende, Alice; Schnurr, Matthew A.Atlantic Canada and New England share a geography and history characterized by many commonalities yet also strong differences. This book explores the role of borders, bordering and borderlands in the emergence and evolution of Atlantic Canada, and its relationship with “others” including neighboring New England and migrants worldwide who have settled in the region. Borders at all scales, from the community level to that of nation-states, delineate areas of similarity and differentiate spaces of difference. Borders may be established by law and sustained by convention and practice, or borders may be ephemeral, maintained only for a brief time or a specific purpose. Their primary purpose is, and has been, to define and control territory, from perceived or real personal space to national and even supra-national boundaries (Elden 2013). In Atlantic Canada, borders operate and are evident at all levels from the neighborhoods and communities of cities like Halifax, counties and districts, provinces, groups of provinces—the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick), and with the addition of Newfoundland and Labrador—Atlantic Canada. On occasion, when common interests allow or call for it, the international region is bordered from other regions of the United States and Canada, and identified loosely as the Northeast or more recently “Atlantica”.