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Policing and the Border
by Max Hamon
This series explores the history of policing in the United States and Canada. Through conversations with authors of recent books on the topic of policing in Canada, the United States and the border between I hope to shed some historical perspective on a topic which has much contemporary interest in academic circles and for the broader public.
Episodes
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Episode 9: CBC Radio Prince Rupert
Media technology produces space and shapes our sense of place. For many people advances in communications technology promise identity and nationhood liberated from the tyranny of geography. As such the history of communication offers an opportunity to reconsider the construction of identityand...
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Episode 8: Recreation at Residential Schools in the Far North
The horror of residential schools is a part of Canada's past. In Canada's north, just as in other settler colonial contexts, Indigenous children were ripped from their communities, taken from their parents and, in the name of civilization, subjected to genocidal forces. The aim of these schools…
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Episode 7: Storytelling in Denedeh: Film, Comics and Horror Fiction with Richard Van Camp
In this episode, we speak with Richard Van Camp about storytelling, community, and Denedeh (the land of the Dene). Drawn to story-telling for its power, Van Camp talks to us about history and fiction. His stories of the Weetago (or Wendigo) are remarkable visions of the Strange Things Done in the...
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Episode 6: Sawmills and Small Communities in the Upper Fraser Valley: Interview with Dr. Greg Halseth
The sawmill communities of the Upper Fraser Valley provide a perspectives that may help our reflection on social, economic and environmental processes that shaped the Middle North. Dr. Greg Halseth introduces some of this history and an Oral History Project that work that he and a team of...
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Episode Five - The Bennet Dam and Flooding the Tse'kene Heartland
Dr. Daniel Sims speaks about his research into the disruption caused by the creation of the Bennett Dam and the Williston Reservoir. It was built to provide electrical power mainly for southern communities. As shown by this research, the impact of the Dam surprised many of the experts and the...
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Episode Four - Filming by Haida for Haida: Edge of the Knife
The Edge of the Knife is a Haida language film that is an act of language revitalization. The film tells the story of the Gagiit, or the wildman, the interview discusses the creation of the film and the involvement of community in the process. Producers and script-writer Gwaai Edenshaw tells us...
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Episode Three - Community Archeology through the Field School in the Middle North
In an interview with Dr. Farid Rahemtulla of UNBC we discuss some of the opportunities for new approaches to the field of Anthropology through community based archeology field schools. As discussed here, by tackling the colonial and western ideas of knowledge, new understandings of deeptime…
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Episode Two: Notorious Georges and the Making of Crime in Northern BC
The Georges, historically, like Prince George today were often reported to be notorious. In an interview with Dr. Jonathan Swainger, professor emeritus at the university of Northern British Columbia we talk about his new book, and the "making of crime" in Northern BC.
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Episode One - Introducing the Middle North
The Middle North is a region that is often associated with the frontier. It is imagined as a place on the edge of "civilization." This episode introduces some of the key ideas and theme for this new series.
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Benjamin Hoy - Drawing a Border Across Indigenous Lands
According to historian Benjamin Hoy, the US-Canadian border was a line of Blood and Dirt. This is the title of his recent book, the subtitle is Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands published by Oxford University Press in 2021. The book foregrounds what he refers to as...
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Blacks and the Border Interview with Dr. Amani Whitfield
An important part of the history of the Canadian US border is the history of slavery. Many Canadians believe that antipathy for slavery, following from what we might call the moral capital of Abolitionism, put their nation on the right side of history. In fact, frequently refugees were not...
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Elusive Refuge with Dr. Laura Madokoro
In her recent book Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War, Laura Madokoro describes the intense international debate around refugees from China that transformed notions of humanitarian responsibility and refugee protection. In this interview we talk about the politics of legal…
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Extradition and Abduction with Dr. Bradley Miller
In 1842, the Webster-Ashburton Commission, which also led to the drawing of the international boundary, laid the first legal framework for a treaty of extradition between Canada and the United States. Despite such treaties, borderline crime continued to challenge the legal order and therefore…
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Salmon and Bandits on the Salish Sea with Dr. Lissa Wadewitz
Competition for access to and control of the abundant salmon on west coast leads us to a history is rife with bandits, smugglers, and other lawbreakers. The issues surrounding licensing, environmental protection, and fisheries management are obviously pertinent to the history of law-enforcement,...
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Policing the Detroit-Windsor Borderland with Dr. Holly Karibo
The connectivity of a border is why it is so heavily policed. In the early twentieth century the Detroit-Windsor border became the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for social and economic links between these two cities for years to come. In many...
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Policing on the Great Plains with Dr. Andrew Graybill
The Texas Rangers and the Canadian Mounted Police are two of the most distinctive and recognisable constabularies in the history of policing. Both were central to settling the west and the subjugation of Indigenous Peoples on the Plains. The famous red serge and the Sheriff’s star are essential...
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This series explores the history of policing in the United States and Canada. Through conversations with authors of recent books on the topic of policing in Canada, the United States and the border between I hope to shed some historical perspective on a topic which has much contemporary interest in academic circles and for the broader public.
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Max Hamon
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