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Leave the Lemons at Home: A Political Ecology of BC / WA Border Space
Principal Investigator: David A. Rossiter, Western Washington University
I have recently embarked upon an inquiry into the political ecologies of Canada-US border space; a project inspired through personal experience with the border between BC and Washington State. By tracing the geographies of lemons-as-commodity and highlighting the ways in which citrus fruit regulation at the Canada-US border engages with the management imperatives of capitalist mobility and homeland security, the project exposes a political-ecological production of border space that is bound up with neo-liberal trade regimes, technologically-aided biological transfers, and the production of self-governing citizens through state-led intimidation. A preliminary paper was presented at the Border Regions in Transition IX conference held in Victoria, BC and Bellingham, WA in January 2008.
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