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Borders, Culture, and Globalization

A Canadian Perspective

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 … ; 376 View

Canada is Not Back

How Justin Trudeau is in over his head on foreign policy

The election in October 2015 of the Justin Trudeau government was widely considered to herald a new approach to foreign affairs for Canada. Trudeau had campaigned as a staunch advocate for a … 208 View

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … 256 View
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Culture, Globalization, and Canada’s Borders

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

In the introduction, the editors of the volume outline and discuss the essays that follow. The first group of essays deals with "border culture" and the second with borders and cultures … 30 $3.00 Add
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Sight and Site on the Line

The Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter considers contemporary art and media projects located in North American border regions in the last decade and their role as critical practices and forms of translocal resistance … 22 $2.20 Add
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Imagining Nighttime Detroit

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

In this essay, Darroch reflects upon the border cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, which lend themselves to studying urban nighttime as both practiced and imagined across the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Bordering Things

Objects and Subjugated Struggle at the Border

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

In this chapter the authors outline the centrality of objects, or physical things, at the border as instrumental and pivotal in struggles to formulate and assert legitimacy and to claim asylum, … 21 $2.10 Add
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Canada and Free Trade with the United States

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Summarizes Canada’s trade history with the United States and explains how Canadian culture is impacted by America’s. Reviews Canada’s trade agreements with the United States … 22 $2.20 Add
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Border Cultures: A Retrospective

Part 1. A Context for Border Cultures and Conversations with the Curator

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

In the years 2013, 2014, and 2015, the Art Gallery of Windsor featured consecutive exhibitions of Border Cultures, a landmark series of forty-five artist projects and essays on the “real, … 22 $2.20 Add
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Neoliberalism Comes to Canada

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter examines the arrival of neoliberal rule in Canada and factors such as the rightward orientations of regional governments in the West, the election of Brian Mulroney, policy changes … 43 $4.30 Add
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The Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence

From: 1968 in Canada

The year 1968 marked a decisive break in the history of English-Canadian nationalism. An older generation of nationalists, mostly located in rural Canada and concerned with the loosening of … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Snowbirds

A Cultural Movement across Borders

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter begins by providing a theoretical overview of how migration and borders have changed in the context of a globalizing world, how seasonal snowbird migration has emerged, and how this … 31 $3.10 Add
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Passing Through or Living Here

Body and Self In-Between and On Edge in the Borderland Region of Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter explores what it is to be an embodied self in a borderland region. The author introduces the communities of Stanstead and Derby Line, and a particular and uncomfortable zone that … 24 $2.40 Add
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Politics After the Meltdown and Then the Pandemic

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter discusses the electoral success of left-leaning parties in the West the (Cameron, Obama and Trudeau governments) in response to the economic crisis and rising inequality , as well as … 35 $3.50 Add
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North American Cyber New Regionalism in Canada

Online Cultural Borderlands and Change through New Media

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter seeks to answer two key questions: How will the lack of domestic control over the Internet contribute to Canadian culture? What are the implications of any possible changes in … 28 $2.80 Add
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#WelcomeRefugees

A Canadian Phenomenon That Illustrates the Temporal Dimension of Border Constructs

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter is organized in five parts. Part I is a literature review on the notion of the border construct and its various dimensions, as well as existing literature on time-space theory. Part … 15 $1.50 Add