Borderlands

may be geographical or metaphorical. Borders historians have yet to fully articulate metaphorical borders, but there exists a rich historiography of geographic places described as “borderlands.” Geographical borderlands are characterized by cultural pluralism and conflicting political and social dynamics. Borderlands history originated as an extension of and response to frontier history, a concept articulated by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893. Turner argued that “The peculiarity of American institutions

witnesses and bridges social networks that stretch across border. These two functions seem to contradict each other but in fact they exactly reflect the complex nature of borders, or, more realistically, borderlands, a term coined to uproot in people the misleading image of a line. In her book Borderlands, the author Gloria Anzaldua, as a descendent of Indians and Mexicans living close to the America-Mexico border in Southern Texas, defies such dualistic and simplistic thinking about the border/double-sided

separate one group of individuals from the next group. Borderlands exist because of the borders, and restrictions that we have put into existence. Borderlands are different for everyone and can vary from things like religion, race, and language. To live in a borderland means to live in a place where different individuals and cultures collide with one another. The Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua explained that the borderlands that we have created are not only physical barriers

Jack from the Borderlands franchise is one example of a villain done right. Not only does he contrast well against the heros in the story, but he appeals well to the audience. The audience also sees how changes from being considered a hero by many to being undoubtedly a villain. When we initially meet Handsome Jack he is the CEO of the Hyperion corporation and claims to be trying to civilize the crazy bandit-filled lawless planet called Pandora. In the first installment of the Borderlands franchise

Gloria Anzaldua concept of borderlands is one of many aspects. To begin it is a place that is consistently transitioning, full of multiple people who are seen as different. The borderlands is also a territory where the third world and the first world meets, specifically it is located in the US -Mexican border. Its where cultures collide, it is what separates us from them and determines what we view safe and unsafe, but most importantly it is an unnatural boundary, made to separate us. The people

modern human experience is constructed, there is almost nothing to separate us form the machines we create. The film also represents the borderlands in which cyborgs live in. The borderlands are the productive spaces that are intended for research and the building of knowledge. In Ex Machina, Nathan’s compound is the borderland. To be more specific, the borderland is the room that he confines his robot experiments to. As Caleb was watching the security footage of Nathan’s past experiments, he comes

Gloria Anzalda introduces the concept of the “borderlands”, a literal and metaphorical space where cultures, identities, and languages intersect. She discusses the physical border between the United States and Mexico, but also extends this to psychological, emotional, and spiritual boundaries that individuals and communities navigate. The author reflects on personal experiences growing up in the border region, blending her indigenous, Mexican, and American identities. Anzalda highlights the challenges

SOC 248T: Post-Soviet Paradoxes Ryan Kelley Professor Shevchenko November 16, 2016 Response to “The Bulgarian Borderland” by L. Melishkevich SUMMARY Main Claim of Paper: Religious divisions in Madan (and other Bulgarian towns in the Rhodope region) are produced by a religious borderland in which individuals grapple with ideological conflict and tension, characterized by Eastern vs. Western influences. Support: Factual information and quotes from Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe;

historiography will cover published works that deal with the topic, the history of medicine in the United States-Mexico borderlands. There are three sections that will analyze the history of medicine in the borderlands in different capacities. The three sections are Transnational Medical Borderlands Histories, Public Health and The Indigenous Agent, and ‘Traditional’ Medicine in the Borderlands. These three sections all use distinct and unique sources that may seem untraditional for historians, but help

A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate Brown, reveals Stalinism and Nazi history from the perspective of those subjected by the ethnic purification and imposition of nationalism in the borderland region in the Ukraine, known as the Marchlevsk or Kresy. There is a sense of conflict in the interwar years. Brown notes that throughout the interwar period