Borders in Globalization Podcast
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -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.
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#29 BIG Podcast - “Hadrian’s Wall, Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Border Studies” - With: David J. Breeze (PART 2)
March 15, 2024 15:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBWith: David J. Breeze – British archaeologist and scholar of Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine's Wall and the Roman army; Chairman of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies from 2000 to 2015 A second wall was built to the north of Hadrian's Wall from 141-142 AD until 155 AD but was abandoned militarily in 164. This is the Antonine’s Wall (three meters high with a fence along the top, length of approximately 60 km with seventeen forts, other ‘fortlets’ and ramparts built from lay...
#28 BIG Podcast - “Hadrian’s Wall, Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Border Studies” - With: David J. Breeze (PART 1)
February 15, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutes - 65.2 MBWith: David J. Breeze – British archaeologist and scholar of Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine's Wall and the Roman army; Chairman of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies from 2000 to 2015 The history of the Roman Empire is intertwined with the control of the entire Mediterranean Sea and reached at its peak 5 million km² for 60 million inhabitants. The empire was heterogeneous and expanded through conquests and was maintained through a network of frontiers and a system of friendl...
#27 BIG Podcast - “Nation State Model and Creative Solutions for Border Problems” - With: Nick Megoran – Political Geographer at Newcastle University, England
January 19, 2024 22:28 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBThe Nation-State model is built on the synchronization between a so-called state territory and a so-called national population. The mechanical imposition of this specific model has led to serious conflicts in certain parts of the world. What are the consequences of this model on the design of the country's borders? How to organize borderlands while avoiding conflicts with neighbors? With Nick Megoran, this podcast (in 2 parts) is an opportunity to talk about several original practices such a...
#26 BIG Podcast (PART 1) - “Nation State Model and Creative Solutions for Border Problems” - With: Nick Megoran – Political Geographer at Newcastle University, England
December 15, 2023 16:00 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBThe Nation-State model is built on the synchronization between a so-called state territory and a so-called national population. The mechanical imposition of this specific model has led to serious conflicts in certain parts of the world (we will discover the ancient situation of Denmark/Germany border and the current one of Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan border). There have been several ways of thinking and representing the construction of this nation-state with its constituent factors, its regime of ...
#25 BIG Podcast - “Māori People, Tribal Borders and Customs in New Zealand” (PART 2) - With: Thomas Tawhiri – Indigenous Māori, Custom Manager & Researcher – Aotearoa, New Zealand
November 15, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBThe 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 Waitang...
#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
October 17, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBThe 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 Waitang...
#23 BIG Podcast - “Villes et agglomérations transfrontalières : Enjeux et Défis” - With: Bernard Reitel – Professeur de Géographie Politique et Urbaine – Université d’Artois, France
September 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBParmi tous les milieux possibles à cheval sur les frontières internationales, les villes et agglomérations transfrontalières sont un cas d’étude très intéressant ; elles sont des entités urbaines qui existent à travers les frontières, et de part et d’autre de ces frontières. Elles ont la frontière à la fois comme condition d’existence et comme défi à surmonter. Les villes et agglomérations transfrontalières viennent questionner l’objet des frontières et les frontières viennent aussi interrog...
#22 BIG Podcast - “Nepal-India Border, Minorities and Cross-Border Networks” - With: Kalpana Jha, Analyst and Researcher at the University of Victoria
August 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBCountry 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 ...
#21 BIG Podcast - “Non-Human Borders?” - With: Ammie Kalan, Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria and field-based Primatologist.
July 04, 2023 15:00 - 47 minutes - 42.9 MBAs we know, human history has led to the construction of border systems between different political entities. Human groups have sought to differentiate themselves spatially by boundaries, delimitations, legal conventions, border guards, they have also formed alliances and buffer zones. But there are other types of borders, borders that exist in the non-human world. Types of borders that the study of ethology in general reveals to us, and also primatology. We discuss about these non-human bor...
#20 BIG Podcast - “US/Canada Border and Cross-Border Cascadia Region” - With: Laurie Trautman, Director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, USA
June 04, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBThe objective of this podcast is to better understand both the Cascadia cross-border region and the US/Canada border in this specific region of the Pacific Northwest. The Cascadia region is a plurinational and cross-border region between mountains and ocean, between Canada and the United States, inhabited by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial, and animated by very dynamic political and economic networks. BIG_Lab sat down with Laurie Trautman to learn more about the strengths of this re...
#19 BIG Podcast - “Cross-Border Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Students: Jay Treaty Legacy” - With: Michael O’Shea, Researcher; and Cameron Robertson, Cree Language Writer
May 08, 2023 14:33 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBMichael O'Shea came to share with us the results of his analysis report on the rights of Indigenous students to benefit from the Jay Treaty through Canadian universities (extension of domestic tuition rates to Indigenous students living in the US). This report was translated into Cree language by Cree language writer and translator Cameron Robertson. This podcast was also an opportunity to better understand the importance of language and the challenges related to the translation from English...
#18 BIG Podcast - “History of cross-border cooperation in Europe since 1945” - With: Birte Wassenberg – Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Strasbourg, France;
April 17, 2023 14:59 - 1 hour - 118 MBThe border reflects a division of the world into territorialized state, juridical and political orders that are spatially separated by territorial delimitations. Cross-border cooperation connects local and sub-national authorities, on both sides and across borders. In fact, this phenomenon challenges both the monopoly of external relations of the State, and the nature of the juridical limit of borders for subnational actions. This object of study is extremely complex, because we have a lot o...
#17 BIG Podcast - “Border Film and Border Studies” - With: Michael Dear – Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, California, United States
March 26, 2023 06:55 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBBorders are legal constructs: conventional lines on maps, landmarks on the ground, zone of cooperation, control and violence. But borders are also an artistic object. Sometimes, it is the border itself which is the support of a work of art. Other times, they appear in works of photography, comics, and in movies. Today we are going to talk about “Border Film” with Michael Dear who has just published a book called « Border Witness, Reimagining The US-Mexico Borderlands Through Film ». It is an...
#16 BIG Podcast - “Popular Protest, the Middle East and Borders” - With: Michael J. Carpenter – Political Scientist at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and Managing Editor of BIG Review
January 31, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBThe Middle East is the name of a complex geographical region comprising different countries and cultures between Europe, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Asia. It is also a space where many conflicts have existed and continue to exist today, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These disputes linked to a complex historical, religious and political situation should not obscure the presence of populations who struggle at their level and with their means against the domination that ...
#15 BIG Podcast - “Indigenous Resurgence and Indigenous Internationalism” – With: Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel – Professor in Indigenous Studies & Associate Director of CIRCLE, Victoria, BC, Canada
December 05, 2022 17:28 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBIndigenous nationhood movements are taking place worldwide in multiple ways and are all connected with the Indigenous resurgence. Indigenous autonomy and self-determination are fundamental to Indigenous resurgence. What are the effects of the Doctrine of Discovery on Indigenous Peoples? What are the Indigenous perspectives on International Relations Theory? Between the Buffalo Treaty, and the role of Indigenous Peoples in the Columbia River treaty renegotiation, Indigenous Peoples are using ...
#14 BIG Podcast - “Les frontières et la cohésion territoriale européenne” – Avec: Jean Peyrony – Directeur général de la Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière – MOT –, France
November 07, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBLes régions frontalières et transfrontalières sont au cœur de la construction européenne. La cohésion territoriale est l’un des objectifs de l’Union européenne : cette politique vise à réduire les écarts de niveaux de vie et de développement dans les régions de l’UE. La Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière est une agence française qui aide à la compréhension des enjeux des espaces transfrontaliers. Quelles sont les relations entre l’objectif de cohésion territoriale européenne et les fron...
#13 BIG Podcast - “Frontières internes et frontières externes de l’Union européenne” – Avec: Frédérique Berrod – Professeure à Sciences Po Strasbourg, France
October 13, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBL’Union européenne poursuit le projet de créer une intégration juridique entre différents Etats sur le plan institutionnel et le plan matériel. Mais quels sont ses effets sur les frontières entre les Etats qui la composent ? En outre, le droit de l’UE développe une régulation juridique propre. Que sont les frontières internes de l’UE? Et que sont les frontières externes de l’UE ? Dans ce paysage complexe, avec le marché intérieur, l’espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice, l’espace Sche...
#12 BIG Podcast - “Borderities and Territorialities of Indigenous Peoples” - With: Brian Thom – Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada
September 05, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 98.9 MBIndigenous Peoples have a profound relationship with the land, the water and all the interlinked ecosystems. These relations are the basis of their conditions of existence and of their cultural, legal and political system. Better understanding this complexity of the existential interrelations of Indigenous peoples means better improving the government-to-government relationships and the consolidation of their sovereignties. It is also an opportunity to better understand the territorialities ...
#11 BIG Podcast - “Security of Borders and Security of Transnational Flows” - With: Alan Bersin – Executive Chairman of Altana AI and former U.S. Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection
August 01, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBTransnational flows cross borders and reveal national and international security issues. New technologies such as BIG DATA, artificial intelligence and Machine Learning are mobilized to secure the movement and circulation of data, goods and people. Border lines are no longer the main place for checks and controls. It is this paradigm shift in the analysis and governance of borders that is the subject of our discussion with Alan D. Bersin. Les flux transnationaux traversent les frontières et...
#10 BIG Podcast - "Frontières et Espaces Transfrontaliers: Entre Théories et Pratiques" - Avec: Grégory Hamez – Professeur de Géographie et d’Aménagement, Directeur du Master en Border Studies, Univer
July 04, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBLes frontières sont des délimitations juridiques de territoires d’Etats souverains et jouent en principe le rôle de barrière a la coopération transfrontalière. Néanmoins, sous l’impulsion des Etats comme de l’Union européenne, on observe également l’émergence d’espaces transfrontaliers et de régions transfrontalières fonctionnelles. Comment cerner leur apparition et les enjeux qui les caractérisent ? Des régions transfrontalières émergent-elles vraiment en Europe ? Entre défonctionnalisation...
#10 BIG Podcast - "Frontières et Espaces Transfrontaliers: Entre Théories et Pratiques" - Avec: Grégory Hamez – Professeur de Géographie et d’Aménagement, Université de Lorraine
July 04, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBLes frontières sont des délimitations juridiques de territoires d’Etats souverains et jouent en principe le rôle de barrière a la coopération transfrontalière. Néanmoins, sous l’impulsion des Etats comme de l’Union européenne, on observe également l’émergence d’espaces transfrontaliers et de régions transfrontalières fonctionnelles. Comment cerner leur apparition et les enjeux qui les caractérisent ? Des régions transfrontalières émergent-elles vraiment en Europe ? Entre défonctionnalisation...
#9 BIG Podcast - "Geopolitics of Borders and Border Walls" – Avec : Elisabeth Vallet – Professeur de Géographie et d'Etudes Internationales, Montréal, Québec
June 06, 2022 19:00 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBGlobalization is a complex and plural phenomenon. Some have been able to evoke a world without borders and the disappearance of States, but we rather observe the construction of many walls and barriers. Some flows can cross territorial boundaries without problem while some borders become places of violence for humans. What geopolitics of borders and border walls at a time of a plurality of globalizations? La globalisation est un phénomène complexe et pluriel. Certains ont pu évoquer un mond...
#8 BIG Podcast - "Renforcer le droit de l’asile ; Repenser le droit du territoire" – Avec : Thibaut Fleury Graff – Professeur de droit international public, Université de Paris-Saclay, France
May 02, 2022 19:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBQu’est-ce que le droit de l’asile ? Quelles sont ses relations avec les frontières et les territoires ? Faut-il abandonner la notion de souveraineté et repenser le droit international sur la base de la notion de la compétence ? De nombreuses questions se posent à l’heure de la globalisation. Nous tenterons d’y voir un peu plus clair avec le professeur de droit Thibaut Fleury Graff. What is the right of asylum? What are its relations with borders and territories? Should we abandon the notion...
#7 BIG Podcast - "The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples Across Borders" - With: Patrick Lozar – Assistant Professor in History, University of Victoria, British-Columbia, Canada
April 04, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBBorders between States are modern legal constructions. With colonial expansion, indigenous communities came to be cut into several pieces by many territorial boundaries. This is the case of the 49th parallel which serves as the border between Canada and the United States. How have indigenous peoples resisted the spatial imposition of these linear legal fictions? Elements of responses with the historian Patrick Lozar, specialist of the Indigenous Communities of the interior region of the Nort...
#6 BIG Podcast - "Les frontières médiévales" - "Medieval Borders” - With: Léonard Dauphant – Maître de Conférence en Histoire Mediévale, Université de Lorraine, France
November 01, 2021 20:00 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBAlors que la globalisation grouille de nouveaux réseaux en tous genres et que de nombreux parallèles sont faits avec l’époque médiévale, dans ce podcast, BIG_Lab s’entretient avec Léonard Dauphant, spécialiste des frontières du moyen Age. Léonard Dauphant a notamment publié deux ouvrages (Le Royaume des quatre rivières. L’espace politique français (1380-1515) Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2012, 448 p.; Géographies. Ce qu’ils savaient de la France (1100-1600), Ceyzérieu, Champ Vallon, 2018, 318 p.) ...
#5 BIG Podcast - "International Borders as Legal Complex Object" - With: Geraldine Giraudeau - Professor of Public Law, University of Perpignan, France (G. Giraudeau is currently in New Zealand)
October 18, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBA rich interview on the role of international borders, the different types of borders (land, air, sea), the challenges posed by global warming on the coastal borders, the different legal principles that regulate territorial disputes and the prospects for study in the Pacific region. Time Markers: 0:00 Presentation of Geraldine Giraudeau 1:13 Importance and legal functions of borders 5:06 The different types of borders: land, air and sea borders 10:03 Key challenges of maritime borders f...
#4 BIG Podcast - "Les situations en mouvement et le droit" - With: Jean-Sylvestre Bergé - Professeur de droit à l’Université Côte d’Azur, Nice (France)
October 04, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBA l'occasion de la parution de son dernier livre, Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, professeur de droit, partage avec nous ses réflexions sur "les situations en mouvement et le droit". Son cadre théorique mobilise notamment la notion de "circulation". L'occasion pour BIG_Lab de le questionner sur les flux et les frontières à l'heure de la globalisation (entretien en français). On the occasion of the publication of his latest book, Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, professor of law, shares with us his thoughts on "...
#3 BIG Podcast - "Les frontières à l'heure d'Internet" - With: Anne-Thida Norodom - Professeur de droit public à l'Université Paris Descartes
September 27, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBAnne-Thida Norodom a notamment dirigé la publication "Internet et le droit international" (2014) et publié divers articles sur le thème d'Internet et les frontières, les Big Data et la protection des données personnelles, le droit international cosmique et le cyberespace. BIG_Lab a saisi l'occasion pour l'interviewer sur le renouvellement des manières de voir l'objet frontière à l'heure de la globalisation numérique. Anne-Thida Norodom has notably directed the publication "Internet et le dr...
#2 BIG Podcast - "Post-Truth Politics in North-America" - With: Edwin Hodge - Assistant professor of Sociology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
August 31, 2021 04:31 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBAn intense exchange on extremist movements on the North American continent, the rise of populism in Europe and the future of the common good of democracy. Time Markers: 0.35: Objects of research of Edwin Hodge: conspiratorial movements; extremist groups,... 02.05: What is "post-truth politics"? 05.11: How can Democracy defends itself? 07.20: Capitol event: USA are or aren't a stable democracy? 11.13: Post-Truth Politics in Canada? 15.02: Role of a-territorial social networks? 19.00: ...
#1 BIG Podcast - "La gouvernance des frontières" - With: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly - Professor at the School of Public Administration, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
August 31, 2021 04:30 - 10 minutes - 9.46 MBEmmanuel Brunet-Jailly dirige notamment le programme 'Borders In Globalization' (2012-2020 et renouvelé 2021-28) (SSHRC Partnership Grant). Il est spécialiste des études frontalières. BIG_Lab l'a interviewé sur la gouvernance des frontières. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly notably manages the program 'Borders In Globalizations' (2012-2020 and renewed 2021-28) (SSHRC funded Partnership Grant). He is a specialist in Border Studies. BIG_Lab interviewed him about Border Governance. Websites: BIG Websi...
#1 BIG Podcast - "Post-Truth Politics in North-America" - With: Edwin Hodge - Assistant professor of Sociology, University of Victoria
June 08, 2021 02:05 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBAn intense exchange on extremist movements on the North American continent, the rise of populism in Europe and the future of the common good of democracy. Time Markers: 0.35: Objects of research of Edwin Hodge: conspiratorial movements; extremist groups,... 02.05: What is "post-truth politics"? 05.11: How can Democracy defends itself? 07.20: Capitol event: USA are or aren't a stable democracy? 11.13: Post-Truth Politics in Canada? 15.02: Role of a-territorial social networks? 19.00: ...
#2 BIG Podcast - "Post-Truth Politics in North-America" - With: Edwin Hodge - Assistant professor of Sociology, University of Victoria
June 08, 2021 02:05 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBAn intense exchange on extremist movements on the North American continent, the rise of populism in Europe and the future of the common good of democracy. Time Markers: 0.35: Objects of research of Edwin Hodge: conspiratorial movements; extremist groups,... 02.05: What is "post-truth politics"? 05.11: How can Democracy defends itself? 07.20: Capitol event: USA are or aren't a stable democracy? 11.13: Post-Truth Politics in Canada? 15.02: Role of a-territorial social networks? 19.00: ...
#1 BIG Podcast - Edwin Hodge
June 08, 2021 02:05 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBBIG 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