Author : Jane Helleiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442619333
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Book Synopsis Borderline Canadianness by : Jane Helleiner
Download or read book Borderline Canadianness written by Jane Helleiner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada and the United States share the world’s longest international border. For those living in the immediate vicinity of the Canadian side of the border, the events of 9/11 were a turning point in their relationship with their communities, their American neighbours and government officials. Borderline Canadianness offers a unique ethnographic approach to Canadian border life. The accounts of local residents, taken from interviews and press reports in Ontario’s Niagara region, demonstrate how borders and everyday nationalism are articulated in complex ways across region, class, race, and gender. Jane Helleiner’s examination begins with a focus on the “de-bordering” initiated by NAFTA and concludes with the “re-bordering” as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Her accounts of border life reveals disconnects between elite border projects and the concerns of ordinary citizens as well as differing views on national belonging. Helleiner has produced a work that illuminates the complexities and inequalities of borders and nationalism in a globalized world.