Border Securitization and Transnational Ethnicity A case study

Border Securitization and Transnational Ethnicity A case study of the Central Coast Salish James M Hundley Binghamton University

Security Studies � “…the utterance itself is the act” (Waever 1995: 55) Contrast with Balzacq (2010)

� an articulated assemblage of practices whereby heuristic artefacts (metaphors, policy tools, image repertoires, analogies, stereotypes, emotions, etc. ) are contextually mobilized by a securitizing actor, who works to prompt an audience to build a coherent network of implications (feelings, sensations, thoughts, and intuitions), about the critical vulnerability of a referent object, that concurs with the securitizing actor’s reasons for choices and actions, by investing the referent subject with such an aura of unprecedented threatening complexion that a customized policy must be undertaken to immediately block its development (2010: 3)

� 1) Securitization at border allows us to trace development of sociocultural phenomena � 2) Using an indigenous research methodology allows better insight into those developments

(Central) Coast Salish

Labor, trade, ritual, sport… � Formal political organization � Politics organized by kinship Hop picking Slahal game

Oregon Treaty 1846

The “Salish Sea”

� Coast Salish Gathering � Nawtsamaat Alliance

Ethnicity � Collective, � Tied publically expressed identity to historic self-understanding � Responds to social context

Post-9/11 Changes � Language ◦ From Lhéchelesem to Halkomelem � Human Ecology ◦ Relationship to land/changing metaphors

Tribal Journeys � Experiencing the landscape

Decolonizing Anthropology � From “studying” to “studying with” � “Indigenous research methodology is not simply about who is doing the research – Indigenous or not – but the way in which Indigenous protocols, values, and behaviors are honored and made an integral part of the research, its reflexivity, and results” (Dangeli 2006: 9)