Framing Borders: Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory - Couverture rigide

Kalman, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487509219 ISBN 13 : 9781487509217

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2021

Synopsis

Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman observes a much more diverse range of interactions, from conflict to banality to joking and camaraderie. Framing Borders explores how border crossing represents a conversation where different actors "frame" themselves, the law, and the space that they occupy in diverse ways. Written in accessible, lively prose, Kalman addresses what goes on when border officers and Akwesasne residents meet, and what these exchanges tell us about the relationship between Indigenous actors and public servants in Canada. This book provides an ethnographic examination of the experiences of the border by Mohawk community members, the history of local border enforcement, and the paradoxes, self-contradictions, and confusions that underlie the border and its enforcement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

<strong>Ian Kalman</strong> is a founding faculty member at Fulbright University Vietnam.<br>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487509219
• ISBN 13: 9781487509217
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
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• Personne responsable: non disponible