Borders in Globalization Podcast

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What's Borders in Globalization Podcast about?

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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#20 BIG Podcast - “US/Canad...

06.04.2023

The 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 ...

Borders in Globalization Podcast episodes:

06.04.2023 #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 The 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 ...
05.08.2023 #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 Michael 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). ...
04.17.2023 #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; The 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 ...
03.26.2023 #17 BIG Podcast - “Border Film and Border Studies” - With: Michael Dear – Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, California, United States Borders 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. ...
01.31.2023 #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 The 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 ...
12.05.2022 #15 BIG Podcast - “Indigenous Resurgence and Indigenous Internationalism” – With: Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel – Professor in Indigenous Studies & Associate Director of CIRCLE, Victoria, BC, Canada Indigenous 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 ...
11.07.2022 #14 BIG Podcast - “Les frontières et la cohésion territoriale européenne” – Avec: Jean Peyrony – Directeur général de la Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière – MOT –, France Les 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 ...
10.13.2022 #13 BIG Podcast - “Frontières internes et frontières externes de l’Union européenne” – Avec: Frédérique Berrod – Professeure à Sciences Po Strasbourg, France L’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 ...
09.05.2022 #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 Indigenous 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 ...
08.01.2022 #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 Transnational 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 ...
07.04.2022 #10 BIG Podcast - "Frontières et Espaces Transfrontaliers: Entre Théories et Pratiques" - Avec: Grégory Hamez – Professeur de Géographie et d’Aménagement, Université de Lorraine Les 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 ...
06.06.2022 #9 BIG Podcast - "Geopolitics of Borders and Border Walls" – Avec : Elisabeth Vallet – Professeur de Géographie et d'Etudes Internationales, Montréal, Québec Globalization 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 ...
05.02.2022 #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 Qu’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 ...
04.04.2022 #7 BIG Podcast - "The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples Across Borders" - With: Patrick Lozar – Assistant Professor in History, University of Victoria, British-Columbia, Canada Borders 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 ...
11.01.2021 #6 BIG Podcast - "Les frontières médiévales" - "Medieval Borders” - With: Léonard Dauphant – Maître de Conférence en Histoire Mediévale, Université de Lorraine, France Alors 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 ...
10.18.2021 #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) A 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 ...
10.04.2021 #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) A 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 ...
09.27.2021 #3 BIG Podcast - "Les frontières à l'heure d'Internet" - With: Anne-Thida Norodom - Professeur de droit public à l'Université Paris Descartes Anne-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. ...
08.31.2021 #2 BIG Podcast - "Post-Truth Politics in North-America" - With: Edwin Hodge - Assistant professor of Sociology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada An 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: ...
08.31.2021 #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 Emmanuel 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 ...
06.08.2021 #2 BIG Podcast - "Post-Truth Politics in North-America" - With: Edwin Hodge - Assistant professor of Sociology, University of Victoria An 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: ...