I'm Still Not Crossing That

Borders, Dispossession, and Sovereignty inFrozen River(2008)

Bibliographic Data

ID3948869
AuthorsKlaus Dodds (0000-0001-5074-0662, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue3
Pages560-583
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2012.749243
OpenAlexW2012341125
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This paper considers the film Frozen River (2008) for the purpose of considering how the US-Canadian border is dramatised within the context of two women caught up in a illicit trading of migrants via a Native American Reservation. Re-calibrating more mainstream Hollywood's fascination with the United States' southern border, Frozen River usefully focuses attention on two areas that deserve further reflection namely the materiality of borders and border crossings and biopolitics. The paper concludes with some reflections on how borders, biopolitics, dispossession and sovereignty need further theorization by political geographers and other scholars

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