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Book SynopsisConceiving 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.
Trade Review“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty,
Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.” -- Marilyn Strathern, author of * Relations: An Anthropological Account *
“Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics,
Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.” -- Stuart Elden, author of * Shakespearean Territories *
“[
Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.” -- Martin T. Fromm * Environment, Space, Place *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
