NO201/GG201, North American Transborder Regions :
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NO201/GG201, North American Transborder Regions :
NO201/GG201, North American Transborder Regions Wilfrid Laurier University, Fall 2014 Instructor: Dr. Debra Nash-Chambers Class: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 am - 12:50 pm Room: Bricker Academic (BA) BA208 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: 4-5 pm Wed. 2-4 pm Thurs. DAWB 4-127 Course Calendar Description: This course will present an overview of key transborder regions within the larger North American region. The course will consider the physical, socio-economic and political geography of specific regions on the Canada-U.S and U.S.-Mexico borders. WLU Notices: Wilfrid Laurier University uses software that can check for plagiarism. Students may be required to submit their written work in electronic form and have it checked for plagiarism. Students with disabilities or special needs are advised to contact Laurier's Accessible Learning Office for information regarding its services and resources. Students are encouraged to review the Calendar for information regarding all services available on campus. North American Studies follows the Political Science Department’s policy on deferred midterm and final examinations which can be found at http://www.wlu.ca/arts/politicalscience 1 Course Policies: 1) Late papers will receive a penalty of 2% per day, unless a doctor’s certificate for the student, an obituary for a deceased family member can be provided, or, an extension is negotiated with the instructor via [email protected] in advance of the due date. 2) All written course assignments must contain footnoting or end noting or they will be considered plagiarized work. (See WLU notices.) 3) Assignments must use Chicago style for footnoting or end noting style and the mandatory bibliography for each written assignment. 4) All course assignments must be completed and submitted to the instructor by the last day of classes to be graded. 5) All papers must be submitted via the assignment drop boxes on the course website. Text/Required Readings: A custom course pack is available from the Fed Ex store at 170 University Avenue, West in Waterloo. It contains academic articles and chapters of books complied for weekly assigned readings in stead of text books. Supplementary readings will be available through the online library reserve for this course. They will consist of non mandatory readings to supplement the course pack and, like the readings in the course pack, they can be used as research sources for any assignment. Grading Format: Participation and Attendance: 15% (weekly attendance; participation in group work, class discussions, and the Kairos Blanket Exercise) Assignment #1: 15% - State border assignment. (Due 9/10/14) Assignment #2: 20% - Migration assignment. (Due 30/10/14) Group Project: 25% - 10 % class presentation; 15% written submission; (due in week 11 or 12) Final Examination: 25% (date TBA) /100% Course Assignments: Assignment #1 – Assignment is due in the course online drop box by 11:59 pm on Thursday October 9th. 2 Geography versus Public Policy in the Borderlands – 3-4 pages or 750 – 1,000 words (not including any end notes and the bibliography) Choose an American borderland state and assess whether physical geography or public policy (treaties/ international agreements) was more significant in the location of the boundary between the U.S. and its neighbouring nation. Or, were both important? Describe the physical geography of the border area of the American state you have selected. Identify the political entity across the state border (the Mexican state or a Canadian province or territory), identify the borderland region in question, and note any important treaty or international boundary commission that defined the current international boundary in your assessment. Any map included with the assignment should be added as an appendix following the bibliography and its source should be properly cited in a caption. Course readings may be used as research sources. Avoid Wikipedia as it is not an accredited academic source. Note: The assignment should be double spaced and in size 12 font with approximately 1” margins on top and bottom, and 1.25” to 1.5” margins on left and right sides. Chicago Style footnoting/end noting is required. Samples of Chicago style are available on the course website. The assignment requires a bibliography and sources must be properly credited. Late papers will have a 2% per day penalty. All papers must be submitted via the course online drop box so the papers can go through Turnitin.ca. Every assignment needs a cover page identifying the student by name and ID number, the course number and name, the instructor, and the assignment. Each page of the assignment should be numbered starting after the cover page, including the bibliography which comes last. These requirements apply to assignment #2 and the written group submissions. Assignment #2 – Due in the course online drop box by 11:59 pm on Thursday October 30th. Migration in the Borderlands - 5-6 pages or 1,200 – 1,500 words (not including any end notes or the bibliography) Choose an immigrant or migrant group in the borderland region of your choice on either side of an international North American border. Outline the migration patterns of the group into the area. Assess their importance to the cultural and economic development of the area from the late 19th Century and the implications of the group’s racial or ethnic identity. How did public policy such as immigration policy or immigration trends or migration patterns determine the group’s presence in the identified borderland area? Remember that all non indigenous groups are immigrant or migrant groups at some point in their history. Did the arrival of your chosen group impact the quality of life of the indigenous population? Canadian immigrants into the USA, American immigrants into Canada, and Mexican immigrants into the USA can be used in the assignment. 3 Other suggested groups: Scandinavian immigrant groups, Asian immigrant groups, British Immigrant groups or the Irish and European groups such as the French, German, or Italian immigrants. Use government statistics or immigration figures from secondary sources and reliable websites to support your conclusions. Some suggested sources will be posted online on the course website. As in Assignment #1, course readings may be used as research sources. Avoid Wikipedia as it is not an accredited academic source. Group Project: (Presentations and papers due in weeks 11 & 12 according to the topic.) 10 minute in-class slide presentation (power point, Prezi etc.) and oral commentary – 10 % 6-8 page group report due in online course drop box by 11:59 pm on the day after the in-class presentation. Students will sign-up for one of the following topics in the first class. Time will be allotted in class for group meetings. Out-of-class group work will be required and the group will set the time and place. Groups are encouraged to communicate via email or facebook to facilitate the project. Topics: 1) Marc Emery, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Debate in the Cascadia Region. 2) Climate Change and Sovereignty in the Arctic Borderlands. 3) Pollution, Public Policy, and the Great Lakes Borderlands. 4) International Water Disputes in the Great Plains Borderland. 5) Post -9/11 National Security in the Mexican-American Borderlands. 6) Prohibition to Drug Cartels: American Access to Illegal Substances in the Mexican Borderlands. 7) The Cross-Border Enbridge Pipeline and International Controversy. 8) Illegal Minors and the Crisis in American Immigration Policy. Class Schedule: The readings for each week will be posted online on the course website in MyLearningSpace. They are also available in the course syllabus online. Part One – Geography, Public Policy and Borders Week One – Thursday September 4th - Introduction and Sign-ups for Group Assignment 4 Thursday September 4th - What’s geography got to do with it? / Class time for Group Assignments. Reading: Jarod Orsi. “Construction and Contestation: Toward a Unifying Methodology for Borderlands History”, History Compass, 12/5 (2014): 433-443. Week Two Tuesday September 9th - Canadian First Nations and Borders Reading: Beth LaDow, “Chapter One: Drawing the Line”, The Medicine Line, Life and Death on a North American Borderland. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 1- 22. Thursday September 11th – Native Americans and Borders Reading: Daniel D. Arreola. “Chiricahua Apache Homeland in the Borderland Southwest”, The Geographical Review, 102 (1) January 2012: 111-131. Week Three Tuesday September 16th – The Mexican-American Borderlands – Movie: Geronimo: An American Legend [Dir. Walter Hill, Columbia Pictures, 1993] Reading: “Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo” in Oscar J. Martínez, Editor, U.S.- Mexico Borderlands, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Jaguar Books on Latin America, Number 1. Lanham, MD: SR Books, 2006, pp. 20-37. Thursday September 18th – Movie: Geronimo: An American Legend [Dir. Walter Hill, Columbia Pictures, 1993]; Class Discussion: The importance of physical geography in understanding Native economies and culture in the borderlands. Week Four – Tuesday September 23rd – Public Policy and Creating Borders Reading: “Gadsden Treaty” in Oscar J. Martínez, Editor, U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Jaguar Books on Latin America, Number 1. Lanham, MD: SR Books, 2006, pp. 38- 43. Thursday September 25th – Geography and Northern Borderlands – Great Lakes and the Great Plains Reading: Randy William Widdis. ‘“Across the Boundary in a Hundred Torrents”: The Changing Geography of Marine Trade Within the Great Lakes Borderland Region During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101(2) 2011, pp. 356379. Week Five – Tuesday September 30th - Geography and Northern Borderlands – Cascadia; Class time for Group Projects Reading: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly. “Cascadia in Comparative Perspectives: Canada-U.S. Relations and the Emergence of Cross-Border Regions”, Canadian Political Science Review, Vol. 2(2) June 2008, pp. 104-124. 5 Thursday October 2nd - Geography and the Southern Borderlands – The Mexican-American Regions Reading: James R. Wilson and Cotton Mather. (1990) “Photo Essay: The Rio Grande Borderland”, Journal of Cultural Geography, Journal of Cultural Geography, 10:2, 66-98. Part II – Immigration and Migration in the Borderlands Week Six – Tuesday October 7th – Forced Migration, the Canadian First Nations and the Kairos Blanket Exercise No reading. Thursday October 9th – Migrant Workers and the Mexican-American Borderlands Reading: Sandy Tolan, “La Frontera: Land of Opportunity or Place of Broken Dreams?” , Oscar J. Martínez, Editor, U.S.- Mexico Borderlands, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Jaguar Books on Latin America, Number 1. Lanham, MD: SR Books, 2006, pp. 203-212. Assignment #1 Due in Online Course Drop Box by 11:59 pm Reading Week – October 14 - 17 – No Classes Week Seven – Tuesday October 21st - Immigration, Migration and the Canadian-American Borderlands Reading: Bridget Hayden, “Impeach the traitors: citizenship, sovereignty and nation in immigration control activism in the United States”, Social Semiotics, Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2010, 155-174. Thursday October 23rd - Immigration, Migration and the Mexican -American Borderlands Readings: Matt Bakker. “Mexican migration, transnationalism, and the re-scaling of citizenship in North America”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 34 No.1 January 2011, pp. 1-19 Week Eight – Tuesday October 28th - Guest Speaker, Dr. Benjamin Railton; Topic: Chinese Exclusion in North America Reading: Kornel S. Chang, “Excerpt from Pacific Connections: the Making of the U.S. – Canadian Borderlands”, Journal of Transnational American Studies, 5(1) 2013, pp. 1-16. Thursday October 30th - Drugs, Illegal Migration and the Borderlands Reading: Holly Karibo, “Mainlining Along the Line: Consuming Heroin in the Great Lakes Border Region, th 1945-1960”, 49 Parallel, Vol. 30 (Autumn 2012): 1-32. Assignment #2 Due in Online Course Drop Box by 11:59 pm 6 Part III – Water and Sustainability in the Borderlands Week Nine – Tuesday November 4th - Water Transportation and Borderland Cooperation: the St. Lawrence Seaway Reading: Claire Farnham. “The St. Lawrence Seaway: A Bi-National Political Marathon, A Local and State Initiative”, New York History, Vol. 85, No. 4 9 (Fall 2004), pp. 359-385. Thursday November 6th - Water Transportation and Contested Space: The Northwest Passage Reading: Jeffrey R. Parkey, (2002) “Assessing the Institutional Alternatives for Future Northwest Passage Governance”, American Review of Canadian Studies, 42:2, 171-194. Week Ten Tuesday November 11th - Water as a Contested Resource: Along the 49th Parallel Readings: Frédéric Lasserre, “Continental Bulk Water Transfers: Chimera or Real Possibility?”, in Water Without Borders? Canada, United States, and Shared Waters, Emma Norman, Alice Cohen, and Karen Bakker, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013, pp. 88-118. Bruce Granville Miller, “West Coast Indians/First Nations on the Border of Contagion in the Post – 9/11 Era”, Sterling Evans, ed. The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests, Essays on the Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, pp. 49-66. Thursday November 13th -Water as a Contested Resource: Drought in the Mexican-American Borderlands Reading: Wendy Jepson. (2012) “Claiming Space, Claiming Water: Contested Legal Geographies of Water in South Texas”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102:3, 614-631. Week Eleven – Tuesday November 18th - Water Pollution: - The Gulf of Mexico and the BP Oil Spill Reading: Rick S. Kurtz. “Oil Spill Causation and the Deepwater Horizon Spill”, Review of Policy Research, Volume 30, Number 4 (2013): 366-380. Thursday November 20th - Group Presentations – Groups 1, 2 &3 No readings. Week Twelve – Tuesday November 25th – Group Presentations - Groups 4, 5 & 6 No readings. 7 Thursday November 27th – Group Presentations – Groups 7 & 8; Class Discussion: Do borders make a difference? No readings. Review Class – Tuesday December 2nd Study Days – December 4th & 5th – No Classes Final Examination - TBA 8