Framing Borders : Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory / Ian Kalman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalman, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Border crossing--Political aspects--Canadian-American Border Region.

Border crossing.

Border crossing--Political aspects--Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne.

Border crossing--Social aspects--Canadian-American Border Region.

Border crossing--Social aspects--Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne.

Borderlands--Political aspects--Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Social aspects--Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne.

Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne--Social conditions.

Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman observes a much more diverse range of interactions, from conflict to banality to joking and camaraderie. Framing Borders explores how border crossing represents a conversation where different actors "frame" themselves, the law, and the space that they occupy in diverse ways. Written in accessible, lively prose, Kalman addresses what goes on when border officers and Akwesasne residents meet, and what these exchanges tell us about the relationship between Indigenous actors and public servants in Canada. This book provides an ethnographic examination of the experiences of the border by Mohawk community members, the history of local border enforcement, and the paradoxes, self-contradictions, and confusions that underlie the border and its enforcement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Chapter One Introduction

Chapter Two Welcome to Akwesasne

Chapter Three Doing History in Akwesasne

Chapter Four The Changing Face of the Cornwall-Akwesasne Border

Chapter Five “Reporting in” to/from Akwesasne

Chapter Six Processing

Chapter Seven Talking Borders

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.

ISBN:

1-4875-3992-4

1-4875-3991-6

OCLC:

1226779194