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Dr. Sheila McManus
Borders are Stupid
About the talk
Most people today, if they think about borders at all, can be forgiven for believing that lines on a map are real things that serve useful purposes. By demarcating the edges of nation-states they are responsible for everything from shoring up sovereignty, nationalism, and colonialism, to drawing the lines between 鈥渦s鈥 and 鈥渢hem.鈥 However, if you take a closer look at the long messy histories and even messier contemporary functions of those invisible lines you discover that what they are best at is lying to you. This talk will explore why we believe the lies borders tell us, and why we shouldn鈥檛.
About Dr. Sheila McManus
Dr. Sheila McManus is Professor of History and one-third of the Lethbridge Border Studies research group.鈥疶heir research focuses primarily on the history of the borderlands of the North American West.鈥疢cManus is the author of鈥Both Sides Now: Making the Alberta-Montana Borderlands (免费福利资源在线看片 of Nebraska Press and 免费福利资源在线看片 of Alberta Press, 2005);鈥Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West, (Wiley, 2010); and鈥Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West鈥(Texas A&M Press, 2022).鈥疶hey co-edited鈥One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests (Athabasca 免费福利资源在线看片 Press and the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Alberta Press, 2008), and鈥Intersections and New Directions in Critical Border Studies鈥 (under contract with Athabasca 免费福利资源在线看片 Press).鈥