Beyond the border : tensions across the forty-ninth parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies / edited by Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conway, Kyle, 1977-

Pasch, Timothy James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Social aspects--Prairie Provinces--Congresses.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Social aspects--Great Plains--Congresses.

Borderlands--Political aspects--Prairie Provinces--Congresses.

Borderlands--Political aspects--Great Plains--Congresses.

Group identity.

Social conditions.

Social aspects.

Prairie Provinces--Social conditions--Congresses.

Prairie Provinces.

Great Plains--Social conditions--Congresses.

Great Plains.

Group identity--Prairie Provinces--Congresses.

Group identity--Great Plains--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Summary:

The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are merely "fly-over" country is a mistake. In the post-9/11 era, politicians and policy-makers are paying more attention to the region, especially where border enforcement is concerned. Beyond the Border provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the region's increasing importance. Drawing inspiration from Habermas's observation that certain modern phenomena - from ecological degradation and organized crime to increased capital mobility - challenge a state's ability to retain sovereignty over a fixed geographical region, contributors to this book question the ontological status of the Canada-US border. They look at how entertainment media represents the border for their viewers, how Canada and the US enforce the line that separates the two countries, and how the border appears from the viewpoint of Native communities where it was imposed through their traditional lands. Under this scrutiny, the border ceases to appear as self-evident and its status is more fragile than otherwise imagined. At a time when the importance of border security is increasingly emphasized and the Great Plains and Prairies are becoming more economically and politically prominent, Beyond the Border offers necessary context for understanding decisions by politicians and policy-makers along the forty-ninth parallel. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Mediated Border

1 The Borders of Cultural Difference: Canadian Television and Cultural Identity / Serra Tinic Tinic, Serra 29

2 The Canadian Sitcom and the Fantasy of National Difference: Little Mosque on the Prairie and English-Canadian Identity / Christopher Cwynar Cwynar, Christopher 39

3 The Flow of Amusement: The First Year of Moving Pictures in the Red River Valley / Paul Moore Moore, Paul 71

The Political Border

4 "Shutting Down the Snake Ranch": Battling Booze at the BC Border, 1910-14 / Brandon Dimmel Dimmel, Brandon 93

5 International and Domestic Pressures on the Governance of the St Mary and Milk Rivers / Michelle Morris Morris, Michelle 113

6 Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains States and the Prairie Provinces: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's All Wet / Paul R. Sando Sando, Paul R. 133

The Native Border

7 Border Studies and Indigenous Peoples: Reconsidering Our Approach / Zalfa Feghali Feghali, Zalfa 153

8 Navigating the "Erotic Conversion": Transgression and Sovereignty in Native Literatures of the Northern Plains / Joshua D. Miner Miner, Joshua D. 170

9 The Anishnaabeg of Bawating: Indigenous People Look at the Canada-US Border / Phil Bellfy Bellfy, Phil 199.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of North Dakota Institute for Borderland Studies, June 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773541306

0773541306

9780773541313

0773541314

OCLC:

828767116