Hosted by Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 15 episodes
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Hosted by Border Studies academics Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts, this podcast explores border depictions and encounters in our contemporary world. Zalfa, Gillian, and their guests discuss borders, their cultural manifestations, and their implications. In their aim to make the academic field of border studies accessible to non-specialist audiences, they ask questions like: “What do borders look like?”, “How are borders used and mobilised in our everyday lives?”, and “What different borders can be known?” To answer these questions, they consider current events, personal stories, and specialist academic texts, as well as exploring and reflecting on “classic” texts of Border Studies.
Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts hosts Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell, a society show with 15 episodes published.
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Send us a Message RIP Moira Rose, also sometimes known as the great Catherine O'Hara. We refer to April Carter's The Political Theory of Global Citizenship; James Clifford's "Traveling Cultures" in Cultural Studies; Homi
Send us a Message Haven’t read Delacroix’s Small Boat yet? You know what to do! Head to your local independent bookshop, or borrow a copy from your library. Lines Drawn upon the Water is the title of a collection edited
Send us a Message This episode is the first time we’ve asked each other “how are you?” Yes, we’ve checked. Here are two “rankings” for passports: the Henley Passport Index, which describes itself as “the only one of its
Send us a Message Special thanks to our guest speakers, whose border stories we gratefully share with their consent: Jenneba Sie-Jallok, Loraine Masiya Mponela, Ambreen Hai, and Gaura Narayan. Gillian manages to get the
Send us a Message The Urban Dictionary’s definition of “tsunamied” is very much not what Zalfa intended. In fact, she had to look it up on reading this entry in the show notes, and wishes she had turned on safe search. F
Send us a Message Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is available for purchase here, at your local independent bookstore, or check out your local library. It won the Booker Prize in 2023. (Read an article by Gillian about the Bo
Send us a Message Content Note: This episode makes reference to the use of racist language/slurs. This is what a walrus sounds like (righteousness unconfirmed). “Columbus was a Dick” is a song by Princess Goes. Here’s th
Send us a Message David mentioned "pretendians," a term used to refer to individuals who falsely claim Indigenous heritage. David mentioned work by Eric Gansworth (Onondaga). Read more about Gansworth’s work here. Find a
Send us a Message Liv is the translator of The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović, which you can order directly from the publisher Istros Books, or via our friendly local Five Leaves Bookshop. She mentions Vojnović’s (untranslat
Send us a Message 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 bu
Send us a Message 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 o
Send us a Message 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 Comp
Send us a Message Gillian would like to state for the record that Zalfa is also the real deal. In other matters: What is the plural of “impetus”? The answer, improbably, is impetuses! https://www.oxfordreference.com/disp
Send us a Message Hosted by Border Studies academics Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts, this podcast will explore border depictions and encounters in our contemporary world. Zalfa, Gillian, and their guests will discuss
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Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell is hosted by Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 15 episodes.
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