Voluminous States

Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination
Herausgeber: Billé, Franck

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Produktbeschreibung

Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007913
• ISBN-10: 1478007915
• Artikelnr.: 58015526

Autorenporträt

Franck Billé is Program Director of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity and coeditor of Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World. Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and editor of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Voluminous: An Introduction / Franck Billé  1
Sovereignty
1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline
Humphrey  39
2. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of
Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn  52
3. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss  64
4. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris  78
5. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Applying Governance / Marcel LaFlamme  91
Materiality
6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds  105
7. Downwind: Three Phases of a Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee  119
8. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary
Cunningham  131
9. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong /
Clancy Wilmott  146
10. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / Gastón Gordillo
Territorial Imagination
11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green  175
12. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong  191
13. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons  204
14. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassu
/ Franck Billé  217
15. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone /
Lisa Sang-Mi Min  230
Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia  243
Bibliography  253
Index  279