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Listeners who did not share Gillian’s TV viewing habits in the 1980s and ‘90s can find the Pace salsa ad here.

We make reference to not only Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: the New Mestiza but also Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro, edited by AnaLouise Keating.

For more on Anzaldúa’s “doodles,” see Suzanne Bost’s “Messy Archives and Materials that Matter: Making Knowledge with the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers.”

Read an interview between Gloria Anzaldúa and Patti Blanco here.

Read Paula M.L. Moya’s “Postmodernism, Realism, and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism” here.

Steph refers to Melissa Castillo Planas’s book A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s “Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies” (paywall), and to the artists Delilah Montoya, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and Scherezade García.

We reference the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

For more on the Chicano Movement, see Valerie Mendoza’s “Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement” and Jessie Kratz’s “El Movimiento: The Chicano Movement and Hispanic Identity in the United States.”

For a discussion of Trump’s border wall, see Alex Guillén’s article on Politico.

For a discussion of corridos, see Celestino Fernández’s “Corridos: (Mostly) True Stories in Verse with Music.”

The material in this podcast is for informational purposes only. The personal views expressed by the hosts and their guests on the Borders Talk podcast do not constitute an endorsement from associated organisations.

Thanks to the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for use of recording equipment, and to India Downton for her invaluable expertise. Thanks also to the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.

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Gillian saw Arrival at Broadway in Nottingham. Support your local independent cinema!

Arrival was adapted from Ted Chiang’s novella, “Story of Your Life," which appeared in his 2002 collection Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor Books). Support your local library or independent bookseller!

For more on runaway film production, see Camille Johnson-Yale’s ”’So-Called Runaway Film Production’: Countering Hollywood's Outsourcing Narrative in the Canadian Press” (paywall)

Some of our favourite pieces on Arrival are:

• Tijana Mamula’s “Denis Villeneuve, Film Theorist; or, Cinema’s Arrival in a Multilingual World” (paywall)
• John Engle’s “Of Hopis and Heptapods: The Return of Sapir-Whorf” (paywall)
• Brett J. Esaki’s “Ted Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrival” (open access)
• Bran Nicol’s “Humanities Fiction: Translation and ‘Transplanetarity’ in Ted Chiang’s ‘The Story of Your Life’ and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival” (open access)
• and the incomparable late Maureen Kincaid Speller’s “‘Recordings Alone Aren’t Sufficient—Speaking Arrival” (open access)

For a little more detail on how Arabic is written and correctly rendered on a page (or screen!), see this short primer from Northwestern University’s MENA Languages Program.

On the passage of the Rwanda Bill:

• Zalfa quoted from Refugee Action’s article, “Rwanda Bill: We are No Longer a Safe Haven, Here’s What Everyone Needs to Know,” Refugee Action, 24 April 2024.
• Read the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Voice (RAS Voice) response to the passage of the Safety of Rwanda Act.
• A(n incomplete) list of things you can do to support refugees, if you are safely and securely able to do so.
• In Leicester, check out One Roof Leicester.
• In Nottingham, check out Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum.

The material in this podcast is for informational purposes only. The personal views expressed by the hosts and their guests on the Borders Talk podcast do not constitute an endorsement from associated organisations.

Thanks to the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for use of recording equipment, and to India Downton for her invaluable expertise. Thanks also to the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.

Music: “Corrupted” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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We Googled “Why are dates important in History,” but fear the results may not have been peer-reviewed.

For peer-reviewed sources on other matters:

• Information about the publication of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-Borderlands/Feghali-Toner/p/book/9780367439590
• For more on Belfast, see David Coyles, Brandon Hamber, and Adrian Grant’s “Hidden Barriers and Divisive Architecture: The Role of ‘Everyday Space’ in Conflict and Peacebuilding in Belfast” (open access).
• For more on Berlin, see Matthew Gandy’s “Ghosts and Monsters: Reconstructing Nature on the Site of the Berlin Wall” (open access).
• For more on the Mexico-US border, see Samantha Sabo et al.’s “Everyday Violence, Structural Racism and Mistreatment at the US-Mexico Border” (open access).
• For more on Cyprus, see Amy Reid’s “A Qualitative Investigation into the Emotional Geographies of Border Politics in ‘Post-Conflict’ Cyprus” (paywall).

In the UK, a viva voce exam – generally shortened to “viva” – is the oral “defence” of a PhD thesis.

Caleb and Gillian refer to:

• Caleb Bailey’s “An Alternative Border Metaphor: On Rhizomes and Disciplinary Boundaries” (paywall).
• Bell Chevigny and Gari Laguardia’s (eds.) preface in Reinventing the Americas, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986, p.viii (on “rhetorical malpractice” in American Studies)
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
• Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life (1974/1984)

Read about the Schengen Agreement here.

Read about Aztlán here.

See a map of Turtle Island here.

The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus’ website offers a primer on the Cyprus buffer zone (or “the Green Line”) here.

The material in this podcast is for informational purposes only. The personal views expressed by the hosts and their guests on the Borders Talk podcast do not constitute an endorsement from associated organisations.

Thanks to the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for use of recording equipment, and to India Downton for her invaluable expertise. Thanks also to the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.

Music: “Corrupted” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Edited by Steve Woodward at podcastingeditor.com