
Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell
Hosted by Border Studies academics Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts, this podcast explores border depictions and encounters in our contemporary world.
Zalfa, Gillian, and their guests discuss borders, their cultural manifestations, and their implications. In their aim to make the academic field of border studies accessible to non-specialist audiences, they ask questions like: “What do borders look like?”, “How are borders used and mobilised in our everyday lives?”, and “What different borders can be known?”
To answer these questions, they consider current events, personal stories, and specialist academic texts, as well as exploring and reflecting on “classic” texts of Border Studies.
Podcasting since 2024 • 11 episodes
Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell
Latest Episodes
Borders and Hospitality
Special thanks to our guest speakers, whose border stories we gratefully share with their consent: Jenneba Sie-Jallok, Loraine Masiya Mponela, Ambreen Hai, and Gaura Narayan.Gillian manages to get the name of her hometown wrong in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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50:43

Borders and Vulnerability
The Urban Dictionary’s definition of “tsunamied” is very much not what Zalfa intended. In fact, she had to look it up on reading this entry in the show notes, and wishes she had turned on safe search.For more on vulnerability, check out ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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34:55

Borders and Speculative Fiction
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is available for purchase here, at your local independent bookstore, or check out your local library. It
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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38:56
