#38 BIG Podcast – « Borders and Gender Studies in North America » PART 1 - With: Andréanne Bissonnette, Political Science Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Border Policy Research Institute (WWU)
Andréanne Bissonnette, Political Science Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Border Policy Research Institute (WWU) and Associate Researcher at the Raoul Dandurand Chair (UQAM);What are the relationships between Gender Studies and Border Studies? What does the prism of Gender Studies contribute to better understanding border policies and the effects of borders on border areas and marginalized people? In this interview, we will better understand that the relation between these two academic fields is based on the idea that borders, particularly political ones, are gendered and shaped by power dynamics. The intersection of these fields allows us to explore how borders affect individuals differently depending on their gender and identities. This podcast is divided into two parts. The first part is a General overview on Gender and Border Studies. The second part focuses on the relations between Gender Studies and Border Studies in the North American Case Study.Time Markers00:00 Introduction to Part 20:24 Characteristics of North American region5:06 Borderlands are neither fully national nor international8:53 Reproductive rights policies and US-Mexico border11:50 Impacts of US administration's policies on border management19:41 Local and innovative initiatives about forms of cross-border governance25:30 Challenges in overcoming gender injustices in border areas29:43 Index that assesses the most inclusive borders in the world?30:28 Borderlands Studies and Innovative ways to support academic research?33:45 Advice for future generations of researchers in Gender/Border StudiesWebsites:BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.phpSubscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_uvic
--------
36:39
#37 BIG Podcast – « Borders and Gender Studies in North America » PART 1 - With: Andréanne Bissonnette, Political Science Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Border Policy Research Institute (WWU)
Andréanne Bissonnette, Political Science Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Border Policy Research Institute (WWU) and Associate Researcher at the Raoul Dandurand Chair (UQAM);What are the relationships between Gender Studies and Border Studies? What does the prism of Gender Studies contribute to better understanding border policies and the effects of borders on border areas and marginalized people? In this interview, we will better understand that the relation between these two academic fields is based on the idea that borders, particularly political ones, are gendered and shaped by power dynamics. The intersection of these fields allows us to explore how borders affect individuals differently depending on their gender and identities. This podcast is divided into two parts. The first part is a General overview on Gender and Border Studies. The second part focuses on the relations between Gender Studies and Border Studies in the North American Case Study.Time Markers00:00 Our Guest today: Andréanne Bissonnette1:38 Origin of Gender Studies and relations with Border Studies6:57 Intersections of gender and border concepts in contemporary research13:00 Feminist geopolitics and territory-body-power relationships21:20 Main challenges in border areas facing by women and gender minorities27:25 Current migration policies and gender inequalities35:31 Intersectional theories and the analysis of border areas42:43 Gender and border studies towards inclusive public policies46:11 Most controversial debates in Gender and Border Studies todayWebsites:BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.phpSubscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_uvic
--------
48:45
#24 BIG Podcast - “Māori People, Tribal Borders and Customs in New Zealand” (PART 1) - With: Thomas Tawhiri – Indigenous Māori, Custom Manager & Researcher – Aotearoa, New Zealand
The Māori are Indigenous Polynesian peoples with distant roots in the Lapita civilization. First inhabitants of what is called New Zealand, they arrived there more than 1000 years ago. The Māori people is a minority, it forms about 18% of the New Zealand population. In this podcast, we will talk about the anthropological, political and legal history of New Zealand, the context of the declaration of independence (in Māori He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni), the treaty of Waitangi, the societal organization of the people Māori (Iwi, Whanau, Hapu) and relations with colonial institutions. An extensive discussion about Māori culture, social boundaries between different Māori tribes and the importance of genealogy, the involvement of Māori culture within the governance of customs borders and the perspectives of indigenous peoples in research on borders.
Time Markers:
00:00 Intro
01:32 Our Guest: Thomas Tawhiri – Indigenous Māori, Custom Manager & Researcher in Indigenous Studies
04:38 Specificities of New Zealand in relation to borders
07:22 Māori life prior to European contact
10:35 What does the word “Māori” mean?
13:09 Navigation high technology of Polynesian peoples
18:18 The naming of New Zealand with the Māori name Aotearoa
23:02 The context of “declaration of independence” (He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni) signed in 1835 and 1839
31:44 The Treaty of Waitangi and the juridical debates linked to the differences in terminology. The Māori version speaks only of 'kawanatanga'.
40:54 Social units rooted in relationships and blood relationships
48:52 What is Mana?
52:37 Existence of complex social interactions and territorial boundaries between Māori Clans
57:21 Tribal Naming of Places, and Land Occupation, as Indicators of Tribal Borders
1:01:42 Māori territoriality and the New Zealand current legal system
Websites:
BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org
JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.php
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization
Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_uvic
--------
1:08:02
#22 BIG Podcast - “Nepal-India Border, Minorities and Cross-Border Networks” - With: Kalpana Jha, Analyst and Researcher at the University of Victoria
Country of 27 million inhabitants, in the Himalayan mountain range, Nepal shares a border with India for 1690 km and with China for nearly 1,200 km. The majority of the inhabitants live in the south of the country (along the Indo-Nepalese border) and in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal became a republic in 2008 and the country adopted a new Constitution in 2015 which provides for a federal-type state, organized around 7 provinces which have their own assembly and executive power. A podcast about the State of Nepal, internal bordering processes, the marginalized people at its borders, notably the Madhesi People, and also the relations with India and China..
Time Markers
00:00 Our Guest today: Kalpana Jha
01:12 Cross-Border Unformal Networks and the shaping of Border Region
03:15 Interests of the Socio-Legal Approach for the Border Studies
05:59 Border, Legal Line of Separation, but also Living Region per se
10:22 How to Manage the Nepal Diversity?
13:10 Nepal: From Kingdom to Federal-type State.
18:30 Relations between Nepal and India
22:30 Nepal-India Border: An Open Border at the Daily Level
25:52 A Huge Wall on the Nepal-India border?
30:33 Cross-Border Governance of Rivers and Political Challenges
36:07 Nepal-China Relations Through Himalayas
41:59 Transboundary Infrastructures and Neighbouring Hard Powers
46:29 The Madhesi People Movement and Diversity of Nepal
50:17 Internal Bordering Processes and Geographical Features
56:15 The Identity of Madeshi People
1:00:23 Madeshi People as Transnational Community
1:04:40 New Legal and Political Recognition
1:06:01 Scenarios for Borderlanders and Cross-Border Communities
Websites:
BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org
JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.php
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization
Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_uvic
--------
1:09:56
#36 BIG Podcast – « Borders, Territorial Jurisdiction and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction » PART 2 - With: Cedric Ryngaert, Professor of Public International Law at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Following the first Part of our interview, this second part of the podcast focuses mainly on the notion of extra-territorial jurisdiction with the examples of certain States, the European Union and even private global firms. What do state borders mean in a world where thousands of different jurisdictions overlap, serve multiple functions, and take multiple forms? The theme of this podcast explores the concept of jurisdiction in light of Border Studies, state territorial sovereignty and the normative power of the State which can extend beyond borders. It allows us to better understand the variable function of legal limits of borders.
TIME MARKERS
00.00 Introduction
00.28 The general rules on extra-territorial State jurisdiction and the Lotus Case (1927)
05.28 The three main types of jurisdictions of the States (prescriptive, enforcement, adjudicatory)
11.47 Competition and Conflict between Jurisdictions and the question of their conciliation
17.23 The extraterritorial normative power of the European union
24.26 The extraterritorial normative power of the USA and the notion of undesirable effects
29.18 Digital Empires, Global Companies and Private non-territorial Jurisdiction
33.40 Indigenous Peoples Jurisdictions
35.56 The links between Jurisdiction Complexities, Borders, and Border Studies
38.57 Conclusion
Websites:
BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org
JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.php
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization
Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_uvic
Bluesky: @big-lab.bsky.social
Borders in Globalization (BIG) is an innovative, integrative, and sustainable network of academic partners from Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, which is engaged with non-academic organizations that are involved in the management of borders and borderlands in Canada and worldwide.
The basic goal is to build excellence in the knowledge and understanding of borders. To this end, the partners will work together to create new policy and foster knowledge transfer in order to address such globalization forces as security, trade and migration flows.
Österreich