ABSTRACT
This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders. By considering those less visible aspects of borders, the book develops an inclusive understanding of how contemporary borders are structured and how they influence human identity, mobility, and belonging.
The introduction and conclusion provide theoretical and contextual framing, while chapters explore topics of global labor and refugees, unrecognized states, ethnic networks, cyberspace, transboundary resource conflicts, and indigenous and religious spaces that rarely register on conventional maps or commonplace understandings of territory. In the end, the volume demonstrates that, despite being "invisible" on most maps, these borders have a very real, material, and tangible presence and consequences for those people who live within, alongside, and across them.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Geographies of Visibility and Invisibility
part I|86 pages
Invisible Borders of Political Control
chapter 2|16 pages
No (Wo)Man's Land
chapter 3|21 pages
“It's All One Place”
chapter 4|20 pages
Transboundary Water Management in Separatist Regions
chapter 5|23 pages
Bordering the South China Sea
part II|110 pages
Invisible Borders of Socioeconomic Control
chapter 6|18 pages
Navigating Invisible Border Spaces in Switzerland
chapter 7|15 pages
Airbnb and the Boundaries of the Tourist Center
chapter 10|19 pages
“Not … Places of High Consequence”
part III|58 pages
Invisible Borders of Technological Control