Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.

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Yes, you can access Border Aesthetics by Johan Schimanski,Stephen F. Wolfe, Johan Schimanski, Stephen F. Wolfe in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Historical Geography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Berghahn Books

Year

2017

Print ISBN

9781789200539, 9781785334641

eBook ISBN

9781785334658

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Historical Geography

Palimpsests

•

101

Figure 

4.3

e 

Borussia 

statue 

placed 

in

front 

of

the

city 

magistrate 

of

Klaipeda, 

then 

Memel, 

in

the

beginning 

of

the

twentieth 

century, 

as

shown 

in

contemporary 

postcard. 

Source: 

Wikimedia 

commons.

Figure 

4.4

e 

statue 

in

front 

of

the

city 

magistrate 

of

Klaipeda 

since 

the

1980s, 

photographed 

from 

the

opposite 

direction 

than 

that 

of

the

previous 

view. 

Some 

post-1990 

real 

estate 

is

towering 

in

the

background. 

Photo 

by

Urban 

Wråkberg 

in

2015. 

Used 

by

permission.

Border Aesthetics
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Ecology
2 Imaginary
3 In/visibility
4 Palimpsests
5 Sovereignty
6 Waiting
Intersections: A Conclusion in the Form of a Glossary
Index

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