Invisible Borders in a Bordered World

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.

List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors.1. Geographies of Visibility and Invisibility: Strategies of Spatial Control and Differentiation. Part I: Invisible Borders of Political Control. 2. No (Wo)Man's Land: Risking Detention along the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line. 3. "It's All One Place": Geographic Networks in a West African Borderland since Independence. 4. Transboundary Water Management in Separatist Regions: Towards a Geography of Hydro-Political Tensions. 5. Bordering the South China Sea: Maritime Claims, Contested Sovereignty, and Novel Territorialities. Part II: Invisible Borders of Socioeconomic Control. 6. Navigating Invisible Border Spaces in Switzerland: What Rejected Asylum Seekers' Lives Can Tell Us about Everyday Bordering Practices. 7. Airbnb and the Boundaries of the Tourist Center: How Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms Have Altered the Tourist Zone in San Sebastian, Spain. 8. Losing Ground: Indigenous Territoriality and the Núcleo Agrario in Mexico. 9. Layers and Ranges of Disabling Borders: Post-Soviet Uzbekistan. 10. "Not . . . Places of High Consequence": The Great Plains, Internal Colonization, and Pipelines in American Media Coverage. Part III: Invisible Borders of Technological Control. 11. Encrypted Geographies: Invisible Cryptographic Borders. 12. Borders in Cyberspace: The Limits to the Space of Flows. 13. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Power of Biometric Border Technologies. 14. Invisible Borders into the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Research Agenda for Invisibility.