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Towards Cross-Border Environmental Policy Spaces in North America: Province-State Linkages on the Canada-U.S. Border
Get PDFA growing number of case studies have painted a picture of a burgeoning network of subnational and cross-border regional environmental linkages along the Canada-United States border, a development which may indicate an evolution in governance arrangements such that cross-border environmental policy spaces are being created. In addition to increasing in number, this literature suggests that cross-border interactions have become more formalized, more functionally intense and increasingly multilateral, or regional, in orientation. This paper explores in a comprehensive, cross-regional manner the finding of these case studies with regard to the extent and intensity of subnational activity by examining the findings of a 2005 survey of environmental linkages between states and provinces along the Canada-U.S. border. The survey findings indicate that subnational and regional interactions have been institutionally and functionally ‘intact’ for longer than most observers of Canada-U.S. environmental relations might expect. One of the most interesting findings is that subnational and regional cross-border environmental linkages, contrary to conventional wisdom, have become more numerous over time but not necessarily more intense in functional terms. Moreover, as expected, environmental linkages are clearly regionally concentrated; clusters of highly linked states and provinces can be found along the Canada-U.S. border, particularly in New England, the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Each of the clusters – or environmental regions – exhibits unique characteristics in terms of the extent and intensity of cross-border linkages
An American Scream
No full textReview of recent books on the Beat Generation, notably Jonah Raskin's American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generatio
Troubled Quests: An Introduction to AmeriQuests in an Era of "Illegals"
Get PDFThis article introduces the current quests of AmeriQuests, and describes preliminary findings from a research project on incarcerated migrants
Review of David Howard Pitney’s The African American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America
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Effects of Childhood Stuttering on Attention Regulation in Emotionally Arousing Situations
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the relation between children’s attention regulation and stuttering in three different emotionally arousing situations. Participants were 15 monolingual, Standard American English speaking, preschool children who stutter (CWS) and 17 monolingual Standard American English speaking, preschool children who do not stutter (CWNS) between the ages of 3; 0 (years; months) and 5; 7. All participants had speech, language, and hearing development within normal limits, with the exception of stuttering for CWS. Measures included two indices of attention regulation (i.e., looks away from the computer monitor and off-topic statements), that were observed during the first three minutes of a “book reading” narrative production task. This task occurred immediately after listening to a pre-recorded emotionally arousing background conversation (negative, positive, and neutral). It was predicted that children who stutter would less efficiently regulate their attention in a negative emotionally arousing situation. Main findings indicated that CWS take fewer looks away from the computer monitor than CWNS during the narrative task and that it initially takes CWS longer to first look away from the computer monitor than CWNS. Findings were taken to suggest that CWS fixate their attention on a stimulus and are less able to disengage when required and/or appropriate while CWNS have the ability to flexibly shift their attention away from the same stimulus, especially in a negative arousing situation
Neither Grobalized nor Glocalized: Fuguet’s or Lemebel’s Metropolis?
No full textIn this study on globalization and its discontents centered on literary representation in the context of Latin America’s multiple modernities, Pastén provides an analysis of the works of Alberto Fuguet and Pedro Lemebel, Chilean writers who, in his judgement, offer perhaps the most thorough portrait yet of the two faces of the continent’s contemporary urban landscape. By problematizing notions such as “the own,” “the foreign” and “identity” in Fuguet’s novels and Lemebel’s urban chronicles, he unveils whether, in the end, “grobalization,” the process by means of which the global overwhelms the local, wins over“glocalization,” a situation in which the global and the local compete on an equal footing.
En este estudio sobre la globalización y sus malestares dentro de los parámetros de la representación literaria en el contexto de las modernidades múltiples de América Latina, Pastén ofrece un análisis de las novelas de Alberto Fuguet y las crónicas urbanas de Pedro Lemebel, escritores chilenos que según él brindan tal vez el retrato más acabado de las dos caras del espacio urbano contemporáneo en el continente. Mediante la problematización de nociones tales como “lo propio,” “lo ajeno” e “identidad,” el autor revela si acaso, a fin de cuentas, la “grobalización,” proceso en el cual lo global arrolla lo local, triunfa sobre la “glocalización,” estado de cosas en que lo global y lo local compiten equitativamente.
Dans cette étude sur la globalisation et ses malaises à l’intérieur des paramètres de la représentation littéraire dans le contexte des modernités multiples de l’Amérique Latine, Pastén apporte une analyse des romans d’Alberto Fuguet et des chroniques urbaines de Pedro Lemebel, écrivains chiliens qui selon lui offrent peut-être le portrait jusqu’ici le plus complet des deux visages de l’espace urbain contemporain du continent. En problématisant des notions telles que “le propre”, “l’étranger” et “identité”, l’auteur révèle si, en fin de compte, la “grobalisation”, le processus par lequel le global noie le local, triomphe sur la “glocalisation”, une situation où le global et le local sont en concurrence sur un pied d’égalité
Filling the Empty Niches
Get PDFA niche, in ecology, is all that a species needs to function: the right food, climate, protection from predators, nesting sites, migration routes, and so forth. An empty niche is a proven niche going unused – say, that of the late Stephen Jay Gould. I argue that the popularization successes in an adjacent field, evolutionary biology, suggest that a similar niche is there for popularizing cognitive neuro. The scientist contemplating writing for a wider audience will often assume that others in the field will be critical, that such a writer will constantly have to justify simplifications or omissions. Or that others will be suspicious that the writer is seeking fame via bypassing the long hard grind of academic publication. While such comment surely happens on occasion, the writer is more likely to be nearly invisible within their own field, even if moderately-well-known outside the field. The reason for this invisibility is simple. Scientists are also general readers. They only have so much time to read, and so they mostly read outside their own field until a new grad student suggests your book for a reading list
Differences That Matter: Canada, the United States and Environmental Policymaking
Get PDFDoes the way Canada, as a nation state, approach international environmental policymaking make a difference with respect to solving environmental problems in the Americas? We argue that it does, and it is a difference that matters. Canadian efforts toward multilateralism and toward inclusiveness serve as a counter balance to the growing unilateralism and ever present exceptionalism of the United States, currently the most powerful country in the world, and Canada’s southern neighbor and regional partner in developing environmental policy that affects the northern Americas directly and all of the Americas indirectly. Our argument is made first generally, and then specifically using involvement and reaction to the goals set out by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), where, along with Mexico, Canada and the United States play leading roles. The basic contention of this paper is that the vision for and goals of the CEC are much more aligned with the way Canada perceives the way international environmental policymaking should be governed, and that by fostering that vision, Canada counters the tendency of the present-day United States administration to go at it alone, and thereby provides a linkage to other countries in the Americas to position themselves for participation in regional environmental policymaking
Deportations in an age of Neoliberalism
No full textUnder policies of the new national security regime, undocumented migrants are more susceptible to being striped of due process, becoming ineligible for basic social services and facing heightened fears of deportation. Central Americans are among the national origin groups with the highest rates of criminal and non criminal forced removals. While the deportation story largely ends for the US once deportees are sent “home”, the impact for receiving nations presents an ongoing challenge as new democracies struggle with mounting gang violence contributed by expatiated youth who were “made in the USA”. Ill equipped to deal with the rise in organized crime, receiving nations have turned to mano dura or zero-tolerance strategies on the advice of regional enforcement agencies. Here we explore the deportation of undocumented migrants under the new security regime and to responses to deportations in several Central American nations