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Expanding Border Temporalities: Toward an Analysis of Border Future Imaginations
No full textEven though questions about the future have played a central role in recent times of polycrisis, border studies have long been relatively silent about the future. Our article develops a research perspective through which the sensitization of border research for the temporal dimension of the future can be achieved. To this end, social and cultural studies’ perspectives on the future are mobilized to approach the interplay of borderwork and/as futurework. We develop a foundation for an analysis of what we call “border future imaginations”. In this way, this study expands our understanding of border temporalities with reference to the future orientation of contemporary societies.
Keywords: border temporalities; future; borderwork; futurework; sociology of time
Temporary Lives: Border Temporalities and Retirement Mobilities in a Turkish Tourism Hot Spot
No full textThe recognition that state borders operate not only through a production and ordering of space but also of time has recently led to a more concerted interest in the temporal dimensions of borders. In the fields of migration and border studies, researchers have suggested that borders are implicated in the creation and transformation of particular “time-spaces” that hierarchically order space and time. These b/ordering practices tend to be examined in relation to states and state forces, often neglecting the importance of economic dimensions. This article contributes to analysing border temporalities in their hierarchical aspects by focusing on the complex relationship between political (state) borders and the frontiers of capital. This relationship is examined empirically through a focus on the lives of German retirement migrants in Turkey. While retirement migration is motivated by the search for a “good life” that is free from the temporal constraints of wage labour biographies, it will be shown that German retirement migrants are highly vulnerable to the temporal bordering processes produced by both state policies and transnational capitalist profit-seeking in the tourism and real estate sectors.
Keywords: international retirement migration; time-space compression; tourism; political econom
Soviet Legacies in Russian (B)order-Making and (B)order-Crossing
No full textThis article explores discourses and practices that have shaped border regimes in different times at Russia’s western frontier, focusing on the interplay between state power, border management, and individual lives. Using a “comparative temporalities” approach, it analyses border control processes in the early Soviet period, during the Cold War, and during the Russian war on Ukraine. It assumes that current Russian border policy has visible parallels with systems dating back to 1920s Soviet border policy and to the Cold War (the adoption of police-style management of transborder mobility). It posits that the comparative temporalities approach reveals an alternation between ‘fluid’, ‘semi-transparent’ Russian borders and more impenetrable barriers. Stricter exit border controls are usually reintroduced after periods of border liberalization and laxity related to regime change, e.g., after the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and after the demise of the USSR in 1991. Initially, increasingly authoritarian and repressive control of citizens’ mobility was accompanied by confusion and an increasingly arbitrary application of new, ‘politicized’ markers as local border authorities strove to implement new restrictions under increased state pressure. Then, borders were once again hardened and placed under stricter control. This intensified repression and helped create zones of instability at the borders
PARENTAL AUTONOMY SUPPORT AND CHILD PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF CULTURAL HIERARCHY
No full textThe studies described in this paper investigated whether cultural hierarchy plays a moderating role in the association between parental autonomy support and child psychosocial adjustment, employing samples presenting a wide range of cultural variability (parents born in 71 different nations). The participants’ cultural backgrounds, based on the parents’ birth country, were rated in terms of emphasis on hierarchical power using Schwartz’s dimensional coding system. Structural equation modelling analyses revealed no moderation effect of cultural hierarchy on the relation between parental autonomy support and child outcomes, with the exception of the relation between parental autonomy support and adolescents’ autonomous self-regulation. As expected, parental autonomy support and cultural hierarchy were significantly and negatively correlated. Parental autonomy support was often associated with indicators of youth psychosocial adjustment, whereas cultural hierarchy was generally unrelated to adjustment. These results support self-determination theory’s position on the universal benefits of autonomy support
Securitizing “Critical Infrastructure” in So-Called Canada: Petro-Colonialism, Land Defence, and Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defense Act
No full textHeavy Hangs the Head of the Household: The Responsibility of Cultural Reproduction in the Chinese Diaspora
No full textMagical Circles in Pandemic Times: On Narrative Roleplaying Games at the Tobar García Children’s Hospital for Mental Health (Buenos Aires, 2020–21)
No full textThis article focuses on a narrative roleplaying game collectively constructed and performed at the Dr. C. Tobar García Children’s Hospital for Mental Health in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the COVID-19 pandemic. During this game, the hospitalized children, many of whom faced situations of extreme social vulnerability, learned concrete narrative skills (e.g., developing a fictional character, narrative plotting) which they could later use for playful practices of collaborative storytelling in their homes, schools, and neighbourhoods. We consider that it is necessary to study and share this creative process with the hope to enhance playful practices of collaborative storytelling with children in vulnerable contexts
Georgeson Bay (Shore Access 17) Pollinator Restoration and Management Plan 2023: Georgeson Bay, Galiano Island, British Columbia
No full textIn 2017, the Capital Regional District Galiano Island Parks and Recreation Commission (GIPRC) invested considerable resources in an attempt to control the spread of spurge-laurel (Daphne laureola) at Shore Access 17 on Active Pass Drive, Galiano Island, British Columbia (the Project). The initial efforts were proven unsuccessful, and this invasive species had persisted, presenting an ongoing management challenge. Therefore, ecological restoration proved to be a potential solution to replace invasive species at this location with native species, and hopefully reduce the management costs of invasive species overtime. Therefore, with the collaboration of the University of Victoria Restoration of Natural Systems Program, the GIPRC, and funding partners, the restoration of Shore Access 17 became possible. This report documents the restoration completed at Georgeson Bay (Shore Access 17) on Galiano Island, British Columbia, as of April 2023, with continued restoration work ongoing. This report builds off of work and information completed and collected by Brittany Boyd ER390 with report titled ‘Restoration of Habitat for Native Plants & Pollinators on Southern Galiano Island, BC’. This report is also intended to be an update to the previously written management plan for this Project titled ‘Georgeson Bay Pollinator Habitat Restoration Project – Restoration Plan 2021- 2022’ authored by Andrew Simon. A total of 773 individual native plant species have been planted and 120 hours of invasive species removal has occurred as of April 2023
Narco-culture, Narco-aesthetic and The Plastic Surgery Phenomenon in Colombia: 2021/2022 Submission
No full textThe topic being discussed in this paper is the influence of narco-culture and narco-aesthetics on gender ideologies, emphasized femininity and the plastic surgery phenomenon in Colombia. Narcoculture is a subculture which originated in Colombia and Mexico in the Narco era (1960s-1980s). Narcoculture aims to reorganize relationships to match the ideals of the drug trafficking world. Such ideals are based on misogyny (fear and hatred of women with power) and sexism (the favoring of one sex over the other, both ideologically and in practice) (Wade and Ferree, 35). The social construct of narco-culture revolves around the idea of a “macho” (emotionless and powerful) man and his ownership of a voluptuous, objectified woman. Narco-aesthetics is the perception and construction of beauty influenced by narco-culture, which is characterized by women with perky breasts, large behinds, and a curvy toned physique (Salazar, Pena, and Giraldo, 63). Consequently, women in these cultures surgically modify their bodies to match such social construction of beauty: this has been described as the plastic surgery phenomenon.The topic being discussed in this paper is the influence of narco-culture and narco-aesthetics on gender ideologies, emphasized femininity and the plastic surgery phenomenon in Colombia. Narcoculture is a subculture which originated in Colombia and Mexico in the Narco era (1960s-1980s). Narcoculture aims to reorganize relationships to match the ideals of the drug trafficking world. Such ideals are based on misogyny (fear and hatred of women with power) and sexism (the favoring of one sex over the other, both ideologically and in practice) (Wade and Ferree, 35). The social construct of narco-culture revolves around the idea of a “macho” (emotionless and powerful) man and his ownership of a voluptuous, objectified woman. Narco-aesthetics is the perception and construction of beauty influenced by narco-culture, which is characterized by women with perky breasts, large behinds, and a curvy toned physique (Salazar, Pena, and Giraldo, 63). Consequently, women in these cultures surgically modify their bodies to match such social construction of beauty: this has been described as the plastic surgery phenomenon.The topic being discussed in this paper is the influence of narco-culture and narco-aesthetics on gender ideologies, emphasized femininity and the plastic surgery phenomenon in Colombia. Narcoculture is a subculture which originated in Colombia and Mexico in the Narco era (1960s-1980s). Narcoculture aims to reorganize relationships to match the ideals of the drug trafficking world. Such ideals are based on misogyny (fear and hatred of women with power) and sexism (the favoring of one sex over the other, both ideologically and in practice) (Wade and Ferree, 35). The social construct of narco-culture revolves around the idea of a “macho” (emotionless and powerful) man and his ownership of a voluptuous, objectified woman. Narco-aesthetics is the perception and construction of beauty influenced by narco-culture, which is characterized by women with perky breasts, large behinds, and a curvy toned physique (Salazar, Pena, and Giraldo, 63). Consequently, women in these cultures surgically modify their bodies to match such social construction of beauty: this has been described as the plastic surgery phenomenon