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We Googled “Why are dates important in History,” but fear the results may not have been peer-reviewed.

For peer-reviewed sources on other matters:

• Information about the publication of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-Borderlands/Feghali-Toner/p/book/9780367439590
• For more on Belfast, see David Coyles, Brandon Hamber, and Adrian Grant’s “Hidden Barriers and Divisive Architecture: The Role of ‘Everyday Space’ in Conflict and Peacebuilding in Belfast” (open access).
• For more on Berlin, see Matthew Gandy’s “Ghosts and Monsters: Reconstructing Nature on the Site of the Berlin Wall” (open access).
• For more on the Mexico-US border, see Samantha Sabo et al.’s “Everyday Violence, Structural Racism and Mistreatment at the US-Mexico Border” (open access).
• For more on Cyprus, see Amy Reid’s “A Qualitative Investigation into the Emotional Geographies of Border Politics in ‘Post-Conflict’ Cyprus” (paywall).

In the UK, a viva voce exam – generally shortened to “viva” – is the oral “defence” of a PhD thesis.
Caleb and Gillian refer to:

• Caleb Bailey’s “An Alternative Border Metaphor: On Rhizomes and Disciplinary Boundaries” (paywall).
• Bell Chevigny and Gari Laguardia’s (eds.) preface in Reinventing the Americas, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986, p.viii (on “rhetorical malpractice” in American Studies)
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
• Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life (1974/1984)

Read about the Schengen Agreement here.
Read about Aztlán here.
See a map of Turtle Island here.
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus’ website offers a primer on the Cyprus buffer zone (or “the Green Line”) here.
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Thanks to the University of Leicester's School of Arts, Media and Communication for use of recording equipment; to India Downton for her invaluable expertise; and to the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.
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