Introduction

The introduction evokes a framework to study border theories, realities, experiences, and cultural productions from the South Asian and Latin American contexts through a comparative lens. It focuses on a methodological – and through it a cognitive – shift by bringing experiences of borders to the centre, thereby also enacting a shift from perspectives of the border to border perspectives. It sets up a rationale for juxtaposing explorations across a variety of genres and cultural resources to arrive at a new aesthetic lens for understanding experiences and subjectivities in the context of border politics.