PROJECTS
Shaping Global
Understanding
Since 2013, the BIG network of cross-border organizations, policy analysts, academic researchers and graduate students have produced, books, peer-reviewed articles, special issues of journals, and policy reports.
We also launched our own peer-reviewed open-access journal, BIG_Review and the BIG_Books series, which we invite you to explore.
You can also learn on the go with our two monthly podcasts: BIG_Podcast and Frontlines Are Everywhere.
Our research is policy-relevant and grounded in real world issues. Our work provides historically and geopolically comparative analyses on the big problems affecting global borders and borderlands including migration, trade, security, ecological issues, borderland cultures, and migration.
Influencing international policy and cross-border cooperation
Policy Reports- under construction
BIG_Review
A forum for academic and creative explorations of borders in the 21st century
BIG_Lab hosts an ever-growing database on global borders
BIG Dyads Database
Recent Impact
Opportunites
Past Conference
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Border Security in the Digital Age
Pillar One
Indigenous Internationalisms
We explore claims of nationhood and nationalism in Indigenous and regionalist experiences in borderlands. Projects under this Pillar examine ways that Indigenous nations, communities, and Peoples challenge the territoriality of states and other patriarchal institutions in order to generate new understandings of how Indigenous relationships develop and persist beyond boundaries. By interrogating terms such as nationhood, international, self-determination, and borders, this pillar is building a deeper understanding of how these terms and relationships are viewed from diverse Indigenous perspectives.
Pillar Two
Territory & Connectivity
We examine the relationship between the bordering processes and territoriality of states, paying attention to trade flows and human mobility within the national boundaries of a state and across international and transnational legal and regulatory regimes.
BIG Dyads Database
The BIG Dyads Database brings together core research themes studied by Borders in Globalization_Lab. Designed as a relational and ever-evolving data platform and housed at the University of Victoria, the BIG Dyads Database allows our team to organize, analyze, and expand the rich information we've collected across multiple projects. More than storing data, the BIG Dyads Database has the potential to advance the global study of borders.
Constellation of Truths
The Constellation of Truths (CoT) project is a novel theoretical framework developed by a team of scholars with support from Borders in Globalization. We argue that as (un)civil society actors in the borderlands attempt to intervene and construct alternative political imaginaries or producing knowledge in the borderlands, their struggles generate constellation of truths. Within this constellation, diverse voices, narratives, and truth claims all interact with differing degrees of power to construct and broaden the realm of political imaginaries. The CoT project is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant.
