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Challenging Borders : Contingencies and Consequences / edited by Paul McKenzie-Jones, Sheila McManus, and Julie Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borderlands--Political aspects.
- Borderlands.
- Freedom of movement.
- National characteristics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Athabasca, AB : AU Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Borders are known for their paradoxical qualities. Drawing on insights from history, geography, the visual arts, and even physics, this collection examines the role of borders in the ongoing negotiation of national identities, in contested claims of sovereignty and belonging, and in the use of violence in the name of security.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Pushing Boundaries
- Part 1. Visualizing Borders
- 1. Toward a Decolonial Archive: A Reflection on the Operationalization Process of Critical Transborder Documentary Production Practice
- 2. Working the Border: Interdisciplinary Encounters Across Intellectual, Material, and Political Boundaries
- 3. The Line Crossed Us?: Remapping the Geo-body of a Nation: How Young People in Finland Understand Shifting Borders
- 4. From Lines in the Sand to the Wave/Particle Duality: A Quantum Imaginary for Critical Border Studies
- Part 2. Cuttings and Crossings
- 5. Sinixt Existence in "Extinction": Identity, Place, and Belonging in the Canada-US Borderlands
- 6. Seeking Safe Harbour: Indigenous Refugees and the Making of Canada's Numbered Treaties
- 7. Keeping Them Vulnerable: Female Applicants and the Biopolitics of Asylum in Texas
- 8. Experiences at the New Canadian-US Frontier: "I Just Assume That No Laws Exist . . ."
- Afterword: On Being Unsettled: Discomfort and Noninnocence in Border Studies
- List of Contributors
- Figure Descriptions.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781771994026
- 1771994029
- OCLC:
- 1515048072
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