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Cold War (2018): Tough Love in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
No full textReview of 2018 film Cold Wa
The Central U.S.–Mexico Borderlands during the 2020 Pandemic
No full textThis essay begins by setting the scene of the 2020 novel coronavirus virus (COVID- 19) pandemic in the central U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The essay then outlines the pre-pandemic situation, from 2016-2019, one characterized by larger numbers of migrant arrivals from Central America, harsh U.S. anti-refugee and anti-Mexican practices, and hardened border controls. The article then discusses pandemic-linked deaths and closures of the border to all but U.S. citizens and Legal Permanent Residents and to slightly diminished cargo traffic, rising again by July and numbers of COVID-19 deaths declining thereafter. Official U.S. border rhetoric has broadened to strengthen nationalist security rationales around health, while activists push back against harsh policy practices, creating an ongoing, dynamic tension in the borderlands
Governance in Imperial County and Mexicali at the U.S.–Mexico Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the lives of those living in the United States–Mexico border. From the Imperial Valley–Mexicali region, along the California– Baja California border, we find two interesting cases in public management that were impacted by the border population—medical care and informal importation of consumer goods. A lack of federal policy and guidance to improve the quality of life for people in the region leads us to rethink the role of governments and governance in the border region. 
“Return of Mental Borders”: A Diary of COVID-19 Closures between Kehl, Germany, and Strasbourg, France
No full textThis paper retraces the author’s personal experience of the COVID-19 lockdown from March to July 2020 at the Franco-German border from a threefold perspective: that of a cross-border worker living in Kehl, Germany, and working in Strasbourg, France; that of a Franco-German citizen with a family and children of both French and German nationality; and that of a researcher specialized in border studies. The paper deals with national re-bordering policies and their direct personal and psychological consequences for borderlanders, and also questions whether such measures are adequate to contain the pandemic, especially in a context of European Union integration which is based on the principle of a “Europe without borders”
Restoring Nature Literacy: Developing a Nature-Based Afterschool Program to Restore Connection Between Children and their Local Natural Environment
No full textChildren are spending significantly less time outdoors compared to children of previous generations. Increase use of technology, lack of nearby natural areas, and concerns for risk and safety have all contributed to a generation of children spending much of their time indoors. As a result, a disconnection between children and nature has occurred. Research suggests benefits of spending time in nature include increased physical activity, reduced stress, and development of a fondness for nature. The purpose of my project was to develop an experiential nature-based afterschool program for school-aged children. My hope was to restore fading ecological knowledge by reconnecting children with their local natural environment through a series of outdoor physical and social activities. Feedback at the end of the project suggested children acquired new ecological knowledge and skills while enjoying their time spent in nature. Success of project could be used to inform future nature-based after school programs
Wrestling with “Will to Truth” in Early Childhood Education: Cracking Spaces for Multiplicity and Complexity Through Poetry
No full textThis article intends to provoke ongoing conversations in the early childhood education context about “will to truth,” which Glenda MacNaughton regards as the intent to know and determine the “normal” and “preferred” ways to think, act, and feel as early childhood educators. The pervading existence of will to truth amplifies concerns over fixed and determined ways to think and act as early childhood educators because “truth” and systems of power are closely linked to one another. To honour complexity and fluidity in thinking and acting as early childhood educators, the author argues for moving beyond will to truth and offers poetic practice as one possibility to reinvent habitual understandings
Opening Up the Unfamiliar and Enabling New Pathways for Movement and Becoming: Through, In, and Beyond Attachment
No full textThe philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari opens up vast potential to disrupt and explore some of the confines of attachment theory when considering the development of enchantment, wishful, and magical thinking in childhood. Through connection with the use of the fairy tale, we seek to illuminate and illustrate the lines of flight, which activate resistance against the universalism of attachment theory and linear process of child development. In using the classic tale of Peter Pan as metaphor, and by applying Deleuzian philosophy and mythology, we aim to expand current thinking about the nature of childhood. By translating text into visual meaning, thus creating a lens with which to view an alternative pathway for child development, the complexity of the spatiotemporality of relationships as a contemporary adjunct to attachment theory is materialized to produce an affective picture of the non-linear dimension and process of development in children. This affective genre illuminates the embodied andsensory aspects of “becoming,” which challenges a reductionist view of relationships. In doing so, this allows a state change that enables professionals and scholars to see differently