Introduction: Culture, 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 -- The Snowbirds: A Cultural Movement Across Borders / Melissa Kelly -- Passing Through and Living Here: Body and Self In-between and on Edge in the Borderlands Region of Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont / Sandra Vandervalk -- North American Cyber New Regionalism in Canada: Online Cultural Borderlands and Change Through New Media / Alexander Rudolph -- #Welcome Refugees: A Canadian Phenomenon that Illustrates the Temporal Dimension of Border Constructs / Renata Grudzien -- Placing and Replacing Border Culture: Indigenous Perspectives -- Across Borders and Cultures: Thomas King's Artistic Activism / Evelyn Mayer -- In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National Security: Re-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne / Laetitia Rouviere -- Sport, Globalization and the Bordering Process: The Iroquois National Lacrosse Team and the Issue of Contested National Identities / Heidi Weigand and Colin Howell -- A Bio-cultural Planning Approach for Managing Trans-border Cultural Heritage Landscapes / Scott Cafarella, Joel Konrad and Rebecca Sciarra -- Borders, Culture, and Globalization: Some Conclusions, More Uncertainties, and Many Challenges / Melissa Kelly and Victor Konrad.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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