ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the opposition between the fundamentally binarist discourses of managers and the apparently hybrid protected areas needed confronting. It also suggest that such a figure can be adapted to illustrate the creation of transboundary spaces. Transboundary protected areas were therefore useful examples for reintroducing the political into discourses of nature. This problematic drawing of boundaries, both symbolic and concrete, played a part in governing the shifting understanding of what was Inside and Outside as it reflected on 'society' and 'nature' being territorialized as distinct ontological domains. The limits of a territorial project are defined by a boundary which participates in structuring it. However, the authority of managers was repeatedly challenged by the specifically transboundary nature of the interactions. The Other was understood to be even Linesmore multiple than initially thought, further hybridising transboundary entities. Transboundary protected areas were no longer considered objects that existed independently from the maps, tables, techniques and practices.
