Cultural politics and transboundary resource governance in the Salish Sea

Water Alternatives

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-160

  Norman, Emma S ^a  

^a Northwest Indian College   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Cultural politics; First Nations and Native Americans; Politics of scale; River basin; Salish sea; Water governance

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; BIFURCATION; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; CULTURAL TRADITION; ETHNOPOLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; POST-COLONIALISM; RIVER BASIN; WATER RESOURCE;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALISH SEA;

EID: 84863333317     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (131)

1. Agnew, J.C. 1994. The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory. Review of International Political Economy 1(1): 53-80.
2. Agnew, J.C. 2007. No borders, no nations: Making Greece in Macedonia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(2): 398-422.
3. Allen, E. 1976. Intergroup ties and exogamy among northern Coast Salish. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 10(2): 161-172.
4. Alper, D.K. and Monahan, R.L. 1986. Regional transboundary negotiations leading to the Skagit river treaty: Analysis and future application. Canadian Public Policy [Canada] 12(1): 163-174.
5. Amoore, L. 2006. Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror. Political Geography 25(3): 336-351.
6. Anderson, K. 2007. Race and the crisis of humanism. London, UK: Routledge.
7. Anderson, K.; Domosh, M.; Thrift, N. and Pile, S. (Eds). 2002. Handbook of cultural geography. London, UK: Sage.
8. Angelbeck, W. 2009. "They recognize no superior chief": Power, practice, anarchism and warfare in the Coast Salish past. PhD thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
9. Bakker, K. 2007a. The 'commons' versus the 'commodity': Alter-globalization, anti-privatization and the human right to water in the global South. Antipode 39(3): 430-455.
10. Bakker, K. (Ed). 2007b. Eau Canada: The future of Canada's water. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia.
11. Barman, J. 1999. What a difference a border makes: Aboriginal racial intermixture in the Pacific Northwest. Journal of the West 38(3): 14-20.
12. Benhabib, S. 1999. Citizens, residents, and aliens in a changing world: Political membership in the global era. Social Research 66(3): 709-744.
13. Blomquist, W. and Schlager, E. 2005. Political pitfalls of integrated watershed management. Society and Natural Resources 18(2): 101-117.
14. Boxberger, D. 1989. To fish in common: The ethnohistory of Lummi Indian salmon fishing. Seattle, WA, US: University of Washington Press.
15. Boxberger, D. 1993. Lightning boldts and sparrow wings: A comparison of native fishing rights in British Columbia and Washington State. Native Studies 9(1): 1-13.
16. Boxberger, D. and Miller, B. 1997. Evolution or history? A response to Tollefson. Ethnohistory 44(1): 135-138.
17. Brown, D. 2005. Salmon wars: The battle for the West Coast salmon fishery. Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing.
18. Brown, J.C. and Purcell, M. 2005. There's nothing inherent about scale: Political ecology, the local trap, and the politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon. Geoforum 36(5): 607-624.
19. Brun, A. and Lasserre, F. 2006. Politiques de l'eau: Grands principes et réalités locales. Québec, QC, Canada: Presses de l'Université du Québec.
20. Budds, J. 2008. Whose scarcity? The hydrosocial cycle and the changing waterscape of La Ligua river basin, Chile. In Goodman, M.; Boykoff, M. and Evered, K. (Eds), Contentious geographies: Environment, meaning, scale, pp. 59-68. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
21. 2O: Science, policy and politics in water resources management in Chile. Geoforum 40(3): 418-430.
22. Budds, J. and Hinojosa, L. This issue. Restructuring and rescaling water governance in mining contexts: The co-production of waterscapes in Peru.
23. Carlson, K.T. 2001. A St'o: lo-Coast Salish historical atlas. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Douglas and McIntyre Ltd.
24. Clayton, D. 2000. Islands of truth: The imperial fashioning of Vancouver Island. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
25. CSAC (Coast Salish Aboriginal Council and Gathering). 2008. Coast Salish Gathering Program. Tulalip, WA.
26. CSAC (Coast Salish Aboriginal Council and Gathering). 2010. Coast Salish Gathering Program. Swinomish, WA, www.coastsalishgathering.com/ (accessed 15 September 2010).
27. Conca, K. 2006. Governing water: Contentious transnational politics and global institution building. Cambridge, MA, US: MIT Press.
28. Cohen, A. and Davidson, S. 2011. The watershed approach: Challenges, antecedents, and the transition from technical tool to governance unit. Water Alternatives 4(1): 1-14.
29. Cumming, G.S.; Cumming, D.H.M. and Redman, C.L. 2006. Scale mismatches in social-ecological systems: Causes, consequences, and solutions. Ecology and Society 11(1): 14.
30. Cox, K. 1998. Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or: Looking for local politics. Political Geography 17(1): 1-23.
31. Dalby, S. and O Tuathail, G.O. (Eds). 1998. Rethinking geopolitics. New York, NY, US: Taylor and Francis.
32. Delaney, D. and Leitner, H. 1997. The political construction of scale. Political Geography 16(2): 93-97.
33. Deloria, V. 1984. The nations within: The past and future of American Indian sovereignty. Austin, TX, US: University of Texas.
34. Deloria, V. and Wilkins, D.E. 1999. Tribes, treaties, and constitutional tribulations. Austin, TX, US: University of Texas Press.
35. Donatuto, J. 2008. When seafood feeds the spirit yet poisons the body: Developing health indicators for risk assessment in a Native American fishing community. PhD thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
36. Ehrkamp, P. and Leitner H. 2003. Beyond national citizenship: Turkish immigrants and the (re)construction of citizenship in Germany. Urban Geography 24(2): 127-146.
37. EC and EPA (Environment Canada and US Environmental Protection Agency). 2002. Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators Report. Seattle, WA, US: US Environmental Protection Agency. www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0201002.html (accessed 30 January 2012).
38. EC and EPA (Environment Canada and US Environmental Protection Agency) 2005. Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators Report. Seattle, WA, US: US Environmental Protection Agency. www.epa.gov/pugetsound/indicators/index.html (accessed 30 January 2012).
39. Evans, S. (Ed). 2006. The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel. Lincoln, NE, US: University of Nebraska Press.
40. Evenden, M. 2007. Fish versus power: An environmental history of the Fraser river. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
41. Fall, J. 2005. Drawing the line: Nature, hybridity and politics in transboundary spaces. Burlington, VT, US: Ashgate.
42. Fall, J. 2010. Artificial states? On the enduring geographical myth of natural borders? Political Geography 29(3): 140-47.
43. Findlay, J.M. and Coates, K.S. 2002. Parallel destinies: Canadian-American relations west of the Rockies. Seattle, WA, US: University of Washington Press.
44. Fischhendler, I. and Feitelson, E. 2005. The formation and viability of a non-basin water management: The US-Canada case. Geoforum 36(6): 792-804.
45. Forest, P. 2011. Transferring bulk water between Canada and the United States: More than a century of transboundary inter-local water supplies. Geoforum 43(1): 14-24.
46. Furlong, K. 2006. Hidden theories, troubled waters: International relations, the 'territorial trap', and the Southern African Development Community's transboundary waters. Political Geography 25(4): 438-458.
47. Gleick, P.; Cooley, H.; Katz, D.; Lee, E.; Morrison, J.; Palaniappan, M.; Samulon, A. and Wolf, G.H. 2007. The world's water 2006-2007: The biennial report on freshwater resources. Washington, DC, US: Island Press.
48. Goodman, E.J. 2000. Indian tribal sovereignty and water resources: Watersheds, ecosystems and tribal co-management. Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law 20(2): 185-221.
49. Griffin, C.B. 1999. Watershed councils: An emerging form of public participation in natural resource management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 35(4): 505-518.
50. Gregory, D. 2004. The colonial present. Cambridge, MA, US: Blackwell Publishers.
51. Guha, R. and Spivak, G.C. (Eds). 1988. Selected subaltern studies. New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press.
52. Harris, C. 2000. The resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on colonialism and geographic change. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
53. Harris, C. 2002. Making native space: Colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
54. Harris, D.C. 2000. Territoriality, aboriginal rights and the Heiltuk spawn-on-kelp fishery. UBC Law Review 34(1): 195-238.
55. Harris, D.C. 2001. Fish, law, and colonialism: The legal capture of salmon in British Columbia. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
56. Harris, L. and Hazen, H. 2006. Power of maps: (Counter)-mapping for conservation. Acme International e-Journal of Critical Geographies 4(1): 99-130.
57. Hele, K.S. 2008. Lines drawn upon the water: First Nations and the Great Lakes borders and borderlands. Waterloo, ON, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
58. Herod, A. and Wright, M.W. 2002. Introduction: Theorizing scale. In Herod, A. and Wright, M.W. (Eds), Geographies of power: Placing scale, pp. 1-14. Cornwall, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
59. Hill, C.; Furlong, K.; Bakker, K. and Cohen, A. 2008. Harmonization versus subsidiarity: Emerging trends in water governance in Canada. Canada Water Resources Association Journal 33(4): 315-332.
60. Hirsch, P. 2001. Globalisation, regionalization, and local voices: The Asian Development Bank and re-scaled politics of environment in the Mekong region. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 22(3): 237-251.
61. Huhndorf, S. 2001. Going Native: Indians in the American cultural imagination. Ithaca, NY, US: Cornell University Press.
62. Huhndorf, S. 2009. Mapping the Americas: The transnational politics of contemporary native culture. Ithaca, NY, US: Cornell University Press.
63. Jarvis, T.; Giordano, M.; Puri, S.; Matsumoto, K. and Wolf, A. 2005. International borders, ground water flow, and hydroschizophrenia. Ground Water 43(5): 764-770.
64. Johnson, C. This issue. Toward post-sovereign environmental governance? Politics, scale, and EU Water Framework Directive.
65. Jonas, A.E. 2006. Pro scale: Further reflections on the 'scale debate' in human geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31(3): 399-406.
66. Judd, N.L.; Drew, C.H.; Acharya, C.; Mitchell, T.A.; Donatuto, J.L.; Burns, G.W.; Burbacher, T.M. and Faustman, E.M. 2005. Marine resources for future generations. Framing scientific analyses for risk management of environmental hazards by communities: Case studies with seafood safety issues. Environmental Health Perspectives 113(11): 1502-1508.
67. Kennedy, D. 1993. Looking for tribes in all of the wrong places: An examination of the central Cost Salish coastal environment. MA thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
68. Kennedy, D. 2007. Quantifying 'two sides of a coin': A statistical examination of central Coast Salish network. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 153: 3-34.
69. Lichatowich, J. 1999. Salmon without rivers: A history of the pacific salmon crisis. Washington, DC, US: Island Press.
70. Linton, J. 2008. Is the hydrological cycle sustainable? A historical-geographical critique of a modern concept. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(3): 630-649.
71. Linton, J. 2010. What is water? The history of a modern abstraction. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
72. Little Bear, L. 2000. Jagged worldviews colliding. In Battiste, M. (Ed), Reclaiming indigenous voice and vision, pp. 77-85. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
73. MacKinnon, D. 2011. Reconstructing scale: Towards a new scalar politics. Progress in Human Geography 35(1): 21-36.
74. Mansfield, B. 2001. Thinking through scale: The role of state governance in globalizing North Pacific fisheries. Environment and Planning A 33(10): 1807-1827.
75. Mansfield, B. 2005. Beyond rescaling: Reintegrating the 'national' as a dimension of scalar relations. Progress in Human Geography 29(4): 458-473.
76. Marston, S. 2000. The social construction of scale. Progress in Human Geography 24(2): 219-42.
77. Marston, S.A.; Jones, J.P. and Woodward, K. 2005. Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geography 30(4): 416-32.
78. Matsui, K. 2009. Native peoples and water rights: Irrigation, dams, and the law in western Canada. Quebec City, QC, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press.
79. McManus, S. 2005. The line which separates: Race, gender, and the making of the Alberta-Montana borderlands. Lincoln, NE, US: University of Nebraska Press.
80. Miller, B. 1997. The 'really real' border and the divided Salish community. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 112: 63-79.
81. Miller, B. 2001. The problem of justice: Tradition and law in the Coast Salish world. Lincoln, NE, US: University of Nebraska Press.
82. Miller, B. 2003. Invisible indigenes: The politics of nonrecognition. Lincoln, NE, US: University of Nebraska Press.
83. Miller, B. 2006. Conceptual and practical boundaries: West coast Indians/First Nations and the border of contagion in the post-9/11 era. In Evans, S. (Ed), The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel, pp. 49-66. Lincoln, NE, US: University of Nebraska Press.
84. Mitchell, D. 1983. Seasonal settlements, village aggregations, and political autonomy on the central northwest coast. In Tooker, E. (Ed), The development of political organization in native North America, pp. 97-107. Washington, DC, US: American Ethnological Society.
85. Molle, F. 2009. River basin planning and management: The social life of a concept. Geoforum 40(3): 484-494.
86. Mollinga, P. and Bolding, A. (Eds). 2005. The politics of irrigation reform. Contested policy formulation and implementation in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
87. Mostov, J. 2008. Soft borders: Rethinking sovereignty and democracy. London, UK: Palgrave.
88. Mountz, A. 2010. Refugees - Performing distinction: The paradoxical positionings of refugees. In Cresswell, T. and Merriman, P. (Eds), Mobilities: Practices, spaces, and subjects, pp. 255-270. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
89. Nadasdy, P. 2004. Hunters and bureaucrats: Power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest Yukon. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
90. Newman, D. and Paasi, A. 1998. Fences and neighbors in the postmodern world: Boundary narratives in political geography. Progress in Human Geography 22(2): 186-207.
91. Norman, E. 2009. Navigating bordered geographies: Water governance along the Canada-US border. PhD thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
92. Norman, E. In press. Nature knows no borders... but the managers certainly do: Transboundary water governance post-9/11. In Brunet, E. and Alper, D. (Eds), The governance of borderland regions in an era of security, Ottawa, ON, Canada: University of Ottawa Press.
93. Norman, E. and Bakker, K. 2009. Transgressing scales: Transboundary water governance across the Canada-US border. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99(1): 99-117.
94. O'Connor, D. 2002. The report of the Walkerton inquiry. Part two: A strategy for safe drinking water. Toronto, ON, Canada: Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.
95. Paasi, A. 2003. Region and place: Regional identity in question. Progress in Human Geography 27(4): 475-485.
96. Phare, M.-A. 2009. Denying the source: The crisis of First Nations water rights. Calgary, AB, Canada: Rocky Mountain Books.
97. Perreault, T. 2005. State restructuring and the scale politics of rural water governance in Bolivia. Environment and Planning A 37(2): 263-284.
98. Raibmon, P. 2005. Authentic Indians: Episodes of encounter from the late-nineteenth century northwest coast. Durham, NC, US: Duke University Press.
99. Rhodes, R. 1997. The new governance: Governing without government. Political Studies 44(4): 652-667.
100. Rogers, R.A. and Stewart, C. 1997. Prisoners of their histories: Canada-U.S. conflicts in the Pacific salmon dispute. American Review of Canadian Studies 27(2): 253-269.
101. Rose-Redwood, R. 2011. Rethinking the agenda of political toponymy. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 10(1): 34-41.
102. Sampson, T. 2006. The sacred water: Introductory address and welcome. In Proceedings of the Managing Water across Borders Workshop. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Program on Water Governance.
103. Seiler, R.M. 2002. Selling patriotism/selling beer: The case of the 'I AM CANADIAN!' commercial. The American Review of Canadian Studies 32(1): 45-66.
104. Simpson, A. 2000. Paths toward a Mohawk Nation: Narratives of citizenship and nationhood in Kahnawake. In Ivison, D.; Patton, P. and Sanders, W. (Eds), Political theory and the rights of indigenous peoples, pp. 114-136. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
105. Simpson, A. 2007. On ethnographic refusal: Indigeneity, 'voice' and colonial citizenship. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue 9: 67-80.
106. Singleton, S. 2002. Collaborative environmental planning in the American West: The good, the bad and the ugly. Environmental Politics 11(3): 54-75.
107. Sparke, M. 1998. A map that roared and an original atlas: Canada, cartography, and the narration of nation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88(3): 463-495.
108. Sparke, M. 2000. Excavating the future in Cascadia: Geoeconomics and the imagined geographies of a cross-border region. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 127: 5-44.
109. Sparke, M.B. 2006. A neoliberal nexus: Economy, security and the biopolitics of citizenship on the border. Political Geography 25(2): 151-180.
110. Spivak, G.C. 1987. In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics. London, UK: Methuen.
111. Spivak, G.C. 1988. Can the subaltern speak? In Nelson, C. and Grossberg, L. (Eds), Marxism and the interpretation of culture, pp. 271-313. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Education.
112. Spivak, G.C. 1996. The Spivak reader: Selected works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. London, UK: Routledge.
113. Steinberg, P.E. 2001. The social construction of the ocean. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
114. Suttles, W. 1960. Affinal ties, subsistence, and prestige among the Coast Salish. American Anthropologist 62(2): 296-305.
115. Suttles, W. 1963. The persistence of intervillage ties among the Coast Salish. Ethnology 2(4): 512-525.
116. Suttles, W. 1974. Coast Salish and western Washington Indians. The economic life of the Coast Salish of Haro and Rosario Straits. New York, NY, US: Garland Publishing Inc.
117. Swyngedouw, E. 1997. Neither global nor local: 'Glocalization' and the politics of scale. In Cox, K. (Ed), Spaces of globalization: Reasserting the power of the local, pp. 137-166. New York, NY, US: Guilford Press.
118. Swyngedouw, E. 1999. Modernity and hybridity: Nature, regeneracionismo, and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890-1930. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89(3): 443-465.
119. Swyngedouw, E. 2006a. Circulations and metabolisms: (Hybrid) natures and (cyborg) cities. Science as Culture 15(2): 105-121.
120. Swyngedouw, E. 2006b. Technonatural revolutions - The scalar politics of Franco's hydrosocial dream for Spain, 1939-1975. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32(1): 9-28.
121. Swyngedouw, E. and Heynen, N. 2003. Urban political ecology, justice and the politics of scale. Antipode 35(5): 898-918.
122. Taylor, J.E. 1999. Making salmon: An environmental history of the Northwest fisheries crisis. Seattle, WA, US: University of Washington Press.
123. Thom, B. 2005. Coast Salish sense of place: Dwelling, meaning, power, property, and territory in the Coast Salish world. PhD thesis. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
124. Thom, B. 2010. The anathema of aggregation: Towards 21st-century self-government in the Coast Salish world. Anthropologica 52(1): 33-48.
125. USGS (US Geological Survey). 2008. Coast Salish water quality monitoring project. www.usgs.gov/features/coastsalish/ (accessed 10 January 2012).
126. Verma, B. 1956. The Squamish: A study of changing political organization. MA thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
127. Wildcat, D. 2011. Red alert: Saving the planet with indigenous knowledge. Golden, CO, US: Fulcrum Publishing.
128. Wilkinson, C.F. 1987. American Indians, time, and the law: Indigenous societies in a modern constitutional democracy. Hartford, CT, US: Yale University Press.
129. Wolf, A.T.; Yoffe, S.B. and Giordano, M. 2003. International waters: Identifying basins at risk. Water Policy 5(1): 29-60.
130. Wolf, E.C. and Zuckerman, C. 2003. Salmon nation: People, fish, and our common. Corvallis, OR, US: Oregon State University Press.
131. Zimmerer, K.S.; Galt, R.E. and Buck, M.V. 2004. Globalization and multi-spatial trends in the coverage of protected-area conservation (1980-2000). Ambio 33(8): 520-529.