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1. Borders and Border Studies / Hastings Donnan -- pt. I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance -- 2. Partition / Brendan O'Leary -- 3. Culture Theory and the US-Mexico Border / Josiah McC. Heyman -- 4. The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective / Anthony I. Asiwaju -- 5. European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation / James Wesley Scott -- 6. Securing Borders in Europe and North America / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly -- 7. Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn / John Borneman -- pt. II States, Nations and Empires -- 8. Borders in the New Imperialism / James Anderson -- 9. Contested States, Frontiers and Cities / Liam O'Dowd -- 10. The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border / Lisa Philips -- 11. Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone / Alejandro Grimson -- 12. Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom / Cathal McCall -- 13. "Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870-1885 / Olivier Thomas Kramsch -- 14. Borders and Conflict Resolution / David Newman -- pt. III Security, Order and Disorder -- 15. Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain / Mathijs Pelkmans -- 16. Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix" / Brenda Chalfin -- 17. Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder / Dan Rabinowitz -- 18. African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier / Timothy Raeymaekers -- 19. Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan / Jonathan Goodhand -- 20. Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border / Josephine Smart -- 21. Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries / Hilary Cunningham -- pt. IV Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility -- 22. Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility / Pamela Ballinger -- 23. Remapping Borders / Henk van Houtum -- 24. From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States / Mathew Coleman -- 25. Labor Migration, Trafficking and Border Controls / Lenore Lyons -- 26. Spatial Strategies for Rebordering Human Migration at Sea / Nancy Hiemstra -- 27. "B/ordering" and Biopolitics in Central Asia / Nick Megoran -- 28. Border, Scene and Obscene / Nicholas De Genova -- pt. V Space, Performance and Practice -- 29. Border Show Business and Performing States / David B. Coplan -- 30. Performativity and the Eventfulness of Bordering Practices / Robert J. Kaiser -- 31. Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico-US Borderline / Robert R. Alvarez, Jr. -- 32. Border Towns and Cities in Comparative Perspective / Paul Nugent -- 33. A Sense of Border / Sarah Green.