Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity.
It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other belongings. It is the vessel of engagement between countries and peoples—assuming many forms, exuding a variety of expressions, changing shapes—but border culture does not disappear once it is developed, and it may be visualized as a thread that runs throughout the process of globalization.
Border culture is conveyed in imaginaries and productions that are linked to borderland identities constructed in the borderlands. These identities underlie the enforcement of control and resistance to power that also comprise border cultures.
Canada’s borders in globalization offer an opportunity to explore the interplay of borders and culture, identify the fundamental currents of border culture in motion, and establish an approach to understanding how border culture is placed and replaced in globalization.
Published in English.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
IntroductionCulture, Globalization, and Canada’s Borders
Victor Konrad and Melissa Kelly
Viewing Border Culture - Sight and Site on the Line: The Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America
Lee Rodney
- Imagining Nighttime Detroit
Michael Darroch
- Bordering Things: Objects and Subjugated Struggle at the Border
Anelynda Mielke and Nadya Pohran
- Border Cultures: A Retrospective
Part 1. A Context for Border Cultures and Conversations with the Curator
Victor Konrad
Part 2. Border Cultures: The Exhibitions
Srimoyee Mitra
Borders and Culture in Motion
5. The Snowbirds: A Cultural Movement across Borders
Melissa Kelly
6. Passing Through or Living Here: Body and Self In-Between and On Edge in the Borderland Region of Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont
Sandra Vandervalk
7. North American Cyber New Regionalism in Canada: Online Cultural Borderlands and Change through New Media
Alexander Rudolph
8. #Welcome Refugees: A Canadian Phenomenon That Illustrates the Temporal Dimension of Border Constructs
Renata Grudzien
Placing and Replacing Border Culture: Indigenous Perspectives
9. Across Borders and Cultures: Thomas King’s Artistic Activism
Evelyn P. Mayer
10. In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National Security: Re-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne
Laetitia Rouvière
11. Sport, Globalization, and the Bordering Process: The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team and the Issue of Contested National Identities
Heidi Weigand and Colin Howell
12. A Biocultural Planning Approach for Managing Transborder Cultural Heritage Landscapes
Scott Cafarella, Joel Konrad, and Rebecca Sciarra
ConclusionBorders, Culture, and Globalization: Some Conclusions, More Uncertainties, and Many Challenges
Melissa Kelly and Victor Konrad
Contributors
Index
About the Author :
Victor Konrad (Editor)
Victor Konrad is Adjunct Research Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. He taught at Carleton and the University of Maine. His publications include books and articles on borders, heritage, and cultural geography.
Melissa Kelly (Editor)
Melissa Kelly is a Research Fellow with the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University. She holds a PhD in Social and Economic Geography from Uppsala University.
