An introduction to transborderism and how living at a borderland region is a formative experience and specifically, in the thesis worked discussed, the perspectives of pupils and students at the Cali-Baja region who routinely cross the Mexico-U.S. border.
Dr Mitxy Mabel Meneses Gutiérrez is a lecturer in International Relations and a researcher at Sheffield Hallam University with interests in postcolonialism and transborderism and a geopolitical focus on the Americas.
A radio version of this episode was first broadcast on 2SER 107.3FM
For the podcast there is a further introduction to the concepts of postcolonialism and the Global South in International Relations.
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The other Wide Open Air Exchange episode referred to during this conversation was with doctoral researcher Lydia Ayame Hiraidē and her interest in what it means to move towards a Black feminist theory of ecology.