1st Edition
Our North America Social and Political Issues beyond NAFTA
Edited By Julián Castro-Rea
Copyright 2012
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its parts? Does it qualify as a distinct global region? Is it just a market or also something else? This book explores several neglected... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Julián Castro-Rea; Part I The First North America, Then and Now: Indigeneity and transnational routes and roads in North America, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez. Part II North American Integration: Development and Challenges: The uncertain politics of North American economic integration, Greg Anderson; The security and prosperity partnership: made in North America integration or co-operation?, Jimena Jiménez; The security and prosperity partnership: the short history of a strategic bargain, Janine Brodie. Part III Migration: A dialectical understanding of the vulnerability of international migrants, Jorge A. Bustamante. Part IV The Democratic Deficit: Canada and North American integration - bringing in civil society?, Laura Macdonald; Making room for democracy: three moments in the struggle against trade and investment regimes in the Americas, John W. Foster. Part V Identities in Flux: Slippery borders: negotiating North American hybrid identities, Victoria Ruétalo; Our North America: a continent of cultural change, James Lull. Part VI Intergovernmental Relations: Canada-US relations: the contemporary imbalance, Tom Keating; Saying 'No' to North America: Canadian and Mexican perspectives, Athanasios Hristoulas; A critique of Mexico-US relations: beyond the contemporary impasse, Raymond A. Morrow. Part VII Conclusions: North America: a trilateral, bilateral, or unilateral space?, Stephen Clarkson; Our North America? From the Mexican standpoint, not yet, Lorenzo Meyer; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Julián Castro-Rea is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada
'The authors have admirably different approaches to what North America means and how closely it should be integrated as a region. They focus on what the region North America means for Mexicans and Canadians with an innovative and insightful focus on culture, security, power and people.' Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Simon Fraser University, Canada
