Beyond The Border: Tensions Across The Forty-ninth Parallel In The Great Plains And Prairies

Synopsis

The Idea That The American Great Plains And The Canadian Prairies Are Just Fly-over Country Is A Mistake. In The Post-9/11 Era, Politicians And Policy-makers Are Paying More Attention To The Region, Especially Where Border Enforcement Is Concerned. Beyond The Border Provides Interdisciplinary Perspectives On The Region's Increasing Importance. Drawing Inspiration From Habermas's Observation That Certain Modern Phenomena - From Ecological Degradation And Organized Crime To Increased Capital Mobility - Challenge A State's Ability To Retain Sovereignty Over A Fixed Geographical Region, Contributors To This Book Question The Ontological Status Of The Canada-us Border. They Look At How Entertainment Media Represents The Border For Their Viewers, How Canada And The Us Enforce The Line That Separates The Two Countries, And How The Border Appears From The Viewpoint Of Native Communities Where It Was Imposed Through Their Traditional Lands. Under This Scrutiny, The Border Ceases To Appear As Self-evident, Its Status More Fragile Than Otherwise Imagined. At A Time When The Importance Of Border Security Is Increasingly Stressed And The Great Plains And Prairies Are Becoming More Economically And Politically Prominent, Beyond The Border Offers Necessary Context For Understanding Decisions By Politicians And Policy-makers Along The Forty-ninth Parallel.--back Cover. Introduction : Paradoxes Of The Border / Kyle Conway And Timothy Pasch -- The Borders Of Cultural Difference : Canadian Television And Cultural Identity / Serra Tinic -- The Canadian Sitcom And The Fantasy Of National Difference : Little Mosque On The Prairie And English-canadian Identity / Christopher Cwynar -- The Flow Of Amusement : The First Year Of Moving Pictures In The Red River Valley / Paul Moore -- Shutting Down The Snake Ranch : Battling Booze At The Bc Border, 1910-14 / Brandon Dimmel -- International And Domestic Pressures On The Governance Of The St Mary And Milk Rivers / Michelle Morris -- Water And Political Relations Between The Upper Plains States And The Prairie Provinces : What Works, What Doesn't, And What's All Wet / Paul R. Sando -- Border Studies And Indigenous Peoples : Reconsidering Our Approach / Zalfa Feghali -- Navigating The Erotic Conversion : Transgression And Sovereignty In Native Literatures Of The Northern Plains / Joshua D. Miner -- The Anishnaabeg Of Bawating : Indigenous People Look At The Canada-us Border / Phil Bellfy -- Conclusion : Beyond The Paradoxes Of The Border / Kyle Conway And Timothy Pasch. Edited By Kyle Conway And Timothy Pasch. Based On Papers Presented At A Conference Held At The University Of North Dakota Institute For Borderland Studies, June 2010. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Formats.