border and bordering

Reviews / Votes

"Never before in human history did the issues of border and border crossing figure so prominently as they do at the present time. Large-scale migrations, forced or voluntary, in the age of transnationalism have foregrounded debates about the relevance of national borders. Recent surveys conducted by social scientists demonstrate how economic and social transactions continue across borders despite stringent surveillance of border areas. At the same time, citizenship and statelessness have become a raging issue. In the context of such a situation the publication of the edited volume entitled Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics, Precariousness which includes articles on actual and metaphorical dimensions of border studies is very timely."-Himadri Lahiri, NSOU, Author of Diaspora Theory and Transnationalism (Literary/Cultural Theory) "There are very few theoretical works on the concept of border coming out of India. This book is a very sensible intervention. The different chapters use film, literature, and ethnography to bring out different aspects of the border-physical, political, symbolic, and mental. The editors deserve praise for compiling this important and interesting book. I am sure it will attract many readers across disciplines."-Swargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka University, Author of Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place "This engaging new volume of essays on the politics, poetics, and precarity of borders in several fields proves how important the notion continues to be in our thinking about the world as it changes around us. Even as a pandemic confuses our ideas of neatly demarcated national spaces, a volume like this is a small but important step in helping us to engage once again with the challenges presented by the idea and the reality of borders."-Nandana Dutta, Gauhati University, Author of Questions of Identity in Assam: Location, Migration, Hybridity "A good book needs no introduction, bad ones need none. This book certainly belongs to the former category in its meticulous way of unfolding the idea of border(s) through each chapter of the collective."-Swatahsiddha Sarkar, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, Author of Gorkhaland Movement: Ethnic Conflict and State Response "As our claims of being 'Globizens', populating the porous world of a network-ed society is fading away under the shrill demands of ethnic and territorial closures and we gravitate more towards a bordered society, this volume contributes significantly to understand the political and cultural ramifications of this succumbing shift. This is indeed an apt intervention, analyzing varied traces of bordering within aesthetic, cultural, and theoretic representations of insularity, ghettoization, and boundedness."-Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Kazi Nazrul University, Co-Editor of Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives