Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections: 3 (Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations 3)

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal ideological geographical and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility however as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas―ecology imaginary in/visibility palimpsest sovereignty and waiting―the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature audio-visual borderscapes historical and contemporary ecologies political culture and migration.