By Emma S. Norman
With virtually the total world’s water basins crossing political borders of a few variety, realizing how one can cooperate with one’s neighbor is of worldwide relevance. For Indigenous groups, whose conventional homelands may well predate and problem the present borders, and whose courting to water resources are associated with the safety of conventional lifeways (or ‘ways of life’), transboundary water governance is deeply political.
This booklet explores the nuances of transboundary water governance via an in-depth exam of the Canada-US border, with an emphasis at the management of Indigenous actors (First countries and local Americans). The inclusion of this "third sovereign" within the dialogue of Canada-U.S. relatives presents a huge street to problem borders as mounted, either by way of usual source governance and citizenship, and highlights the position of non-state actors in charting new territory in water governance. the quantity widens the dialog to supply a wealthy research of the cultural politics of transboundary water governance.
In this context, the ebook explores the problem of what makes a superb up-stream neighbor and analyzes the rescaling of transboundary water governance. via narrative, the ebook explores how those governance mechanisms are associated with wider problems with environmental justice, decolonization, and self-determination. to focus on the altering styles of water governance, it makes a speciality of six case experiences that grapple with transboundary water matters at assorted scales and with various buildings of border politics, from the Pacific beach to the good Lakes.
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The 1783 Treaty marked the end of the war between Great Britain and the separating colonies from the United States. Under this Treaty, the 45th parallel established the border between Lower Canada (Quebec) and New York State (including Vermont), while the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes became the boundary between Upper Canada and the United States.
In particular, I suggest that bringing together works in border studies, environmental governance, and the politics of scale helps to understand the underlying power dynamics and social and political constructions of water governance. Lastly, I suggest that looking at discursive strategies (such as creating counter-narrative) helps to untrench the daily influences of colonial boundaries that are often unseen by the uncritical eye. Insights from postcolonial theory and feminist geography and the application of performance theory, critical cartography, and counter-mapping can help with these decolonizing practices.
Increasingly, Indigenous activists’ movements have successfully employed tools of counter-mapping to assert rights over land (see Wainwright and Bryan (2009) for examples in South America). In the Salish region, Mobilizing theory 35 this occurred as a visualization of the Salish Sea (see Rose-Redwood, 2011), which was used for 20 years by environmental groups and Indigenous communities, prior to the official naming of the Salish Sea in the records of Canada and the United States (Tucker, 2013; Norman, 2013).