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Witness Resistance: The Role of Surveillance in Emad Burnat’s Five Broken Cameras and Michael Haneke’s Caché
No full textOrganizing for racial and economic justice during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from the Chinese Canadian community in Toronto
No full textIn this article, I share my experiences involved in organizing around racism and for social and economic justice broadly during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article specifically focuses on some of my experiences involved in a small, grassroots, community-based organization with a focus on anti-racism, workers’ rights and social justice as the Executive Director at the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter (hereafter CCNCTO) from July 2018 to May 2021. CCNCTO is an organization of Chinese Canadians in the City of Toronto that promotes equity, social justice, inclusive civic participation, and respect for diversity. CCNCTO has an extensive history working in racial justice and advocacy including being a key part of the coalition for winning redress for Chinese head-tax survivors from the Canadian government
Childhood and the Law: A Review of Childhood and the Law in Canada: The Family/State Relationship by Patrick Joseph Ryan
No full textChildhood and the Law in Canada: The Family/State Relationship provides comprehensive case reviews of six leading Canadian decisions regarding the relationships among children, their parents, and the state. Each chapter provides the facts of the case, places these facts in historical context, and closes with a discussion of the social implications of the law, subsequent statutory reform, and ongoing public debates. The book is intended for use in courses on childhood and the law in the Canadian context and provides exceptionally complete materials for briefing and/or mooting the cases presented. It will be welcomed by instructors, researchers, students, and a wider audience of those interested in children’s legal rights and status
Self-organization of Kherson region population in conditions of lack of governance during occupation and liberation (2022-2025)
No full textThe Kherson region, which was under occupation for nine months before liberation, is a bottomless source for various studies, especially the relations of the local population with the occupiers, which varied from city to village, from district to street, from alleyways to Soviet-era guesthouses.
There were many different reasons for this, and in order to understand them, the best option during a full-scale war is oral testimonies. Until recently, oral history as an academic method was something exotic within the corpus of conventional approaches, but today it clearly demonstrates new spaces are opening up for understanding the depth of historical events
Book Review: I. Alinevich, On the Way to Magadan, with three short essays (“The Corporation”; “Self- determination”; “Political Prisoners”); forward by Vaiantsina Alinevich, afterward by Anarchist Black Cross Belarus (Anarchist Black Cross Belarus, 2014)
No full textBelarus anarchist Ihar Alinevich’s richly illustrated memoir (drawings by “Dani Dugum” and “Vasiliy Pero”) takes its title from a folk song about a prisoner being transported by train to a forced labour camp in the far east of the Soviet Union. In the case of Alinevich, his journey takes place in a Belarus variation of a ‘Stolypin car’ with three sleeping tiers, no windows, and bars separating the prisoners from the corridor. Alinevich’s recounting of militant activism, abduction, incarceration, interrogation/torture, and show trial (sentence, eight years) ends with the ride to a Belarus penal colony (prison) situated between an oil refinery and a chemical plant
Judith Malina’s Beautiful Nonviolent Anarchist Revolution: the May 1968 Diaries
No full textKate Bredeson presents her edited collection of Living Theatre co-founder Judith Malina’s (1926–2015), unpublished diaries during the May 1968 uprisings in France, making available a new primary source that provides an important perspective on the intersections of anarchism, nonviolence, theatre, and revolution
Suchetgarh Women: The Strength and Excluded Section of the International Border
No full textJammu and Kashmir, a region straddling India and Pakistan, illustrates the intersection of two major South Asian states along the International Border (IB), where protracted violence profoundly impacts local communities. This study explores the lived experiences of borderland women in Suchetgarh village, Jammu, focusing on the impacts of ceasefire violations and hostile interactions between Indo–Pakistani forces. Utilizing a feminist methodology, the research highlights the profound effects of conflict on women\u27s physical and psychological well-being. It underscores the dual victimization faced by these women: one stemming from entrenched patriarchal structures and the other from militarism and everyday violence. Despite enduring these adversities, borderland women contribute significantly to local economies, education, and social cohesion, embodying resilience and social unity. However, they remain marginalized in socio-political and security spheres due to prevailing patriarchal norms. The study advocates for increased female representation in security forces and policy-making to mitigate the adverse effects of militarized borders. It also emphasizes the potential for feminist perspectives to inform border security studies and improve women\u27s roles in these regions. By focusing on borderland women\u27s perspectives and their call for peace and dialogue, the study challenges traditional realist frameworks and offers insights into the human dimensions of Indo–Pakistan border conflicts. The research calls for enhanced understanding, empathy, and the incorporation of gendered voices to transform longstanding violent relations into peaceful conditions.
Keywords: Borders, borderland women, Jammu and Kashmir, ceasefire violations, security 
Bridging African Boundaries: Four Reviews of Professor Asiwaju’s Compendium
No full textLast October, a box arrived at the office of Borders in Globalization Research Laboratory containing the nearly 1,000-page tome, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy, by Professor Emeritus Anthony I. Asiwaju (Pan-African University Press, 2021). The book is a compendium of three seminal works by the author, representing a lifetime of labor and outstanding achievement. BIG_Review invited border scholars to provide short and to-the-point commentaries on this important publication, and we are pleased to share the following four reviews
Book Review: Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation
No full textBook review by Kalpana Jha of of Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation (edited by Jenniver Sehring, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Margreet Zwarteveen, Routledge, 2022
Mount Lehman Hayfield to Forest Restoration
No full textAbandoned farmland is a “silent driver of biodiversity change” globally and has been identified as in need of ecological restoration (Pearce, 2023). This report outlines our efforts to restore the ecological functions of a local agriculturally disturbed land tract. The 2-acre site is critically important for species habitat and connectivity to adjacent forested areas along the Fraser (Stó꞉lō) River valley in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The site was previously utilized as a hazelnut orchard following initial clearcut disturbance, and has since been planted with clover and non-native hay grasses for livestock forage. More recently, the adjacent area around the field’s perimeter has supported a Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Christmas tree farm. A lumber mill, on the north side of the river from the property hosts a large volume of floating logs which exemplifies the high rate of regional deforestation. As seen in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Map (TEM) data, the impacts of disturbanceincrease the presence of foreign species which impede the early and late successional stages of a native plant ecosystem.Our project’s primary goal is to influence the hayfield’s early succession towards a native mixed coniferous deciduous forest and increase awareness of native ecosystems and restoration strategies. The farmland has shown signs of early succession over the past few years of not being hayed. Multiple large shoots (>2m) of Red alder (Alnus rubra) and Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) exist along the eastern boundary nearest the riverside ravine native forest. More of the same species are naturally emerging at an adjacent property, which has been vacant for multiple years during a major house renovation