Full Description
From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil. 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. In case studies ranging from the United States, Europe, and the Himalayas to Hong Kong, Korea, and Bangladesh, the contributors outline how states are using airspace surveillance, maritime patrols, and subterranean monitoring to gain and exercise sovereignty over three-dimensional space. Whether examining how militaries are digging tunnels to create new theaters of operations, the impacts of climate change on borders, or the relation between borders and nonhuman ecologies, they demonstrate that a three-dimensional approach to studying borders is imperative for gaining a fuller understanding of sovereignty.
Contributors. Debbora Battaglia, Franck BillÉ, Wayne Chambliss, Jason Cons, Hilary Cunningham (Scharper), Klaus Dodds, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, GastÓn Gordillo, Sarah Green, Tina Harris, Caroline Humphrey, Marcel LaFlamme, Lisa Sang Mi Min, Aihwa Ong, Clancy Wilmott, Jerry Zee
Contents
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
