This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved fundamental to the outcomes. However, borders are also becoming ever more multifaceted and complex, representing intersections of political, economical, social, and cultural interests.

For some, borders are tangible, situated in time and place; for others, the nature of borders can be abstracted and discussed in general terms. By discussing borders philosophically and theoretically, this edited collection tackles head on the most defi ning and challenging questions within the fi eld of border studies regarding the defi nition of its very object of study. Part 1 of the book consists of theoretical contributions from border scholars, Part 2 takes a philosophical approach, and Part 3 brings together chapters where philosophy and border studies are directly related.

Borders intersect with the key issues of our time, from migration, climate change vulnerability, terror, globalization, inequality, and nationalism, to intertwining questions of culture, identity, ideology, and religion. This book will be of interest to those studying in these fields, and most especially to researchers of border studies and philosophy.

This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies.

Introduction: Thinking about the Border in Philosophy and Thinking Philosophically about Borders in the 21st Century Anthony Cooper and Søren Tinning Part One: Border Studies 1. From Borderless Worlds to the Reconstruction of Borders: The Changing Agendas of Border Studies David Newman 2. How Do We Theorise Borders and Why Should We Do It? Some Theoretical and Methodological Challenges Anthony Cooper 3. Borders or Boundaries?: Reflections on Conceptual Distinctions of Borders in Sociological Theory Magnus Ring 4. Borderwork and its Contraries: Actors, contexts and values as borders shift Noel Parker 5. Dwelling Space versus Geopolitical Space: Re-examining Border Studies in Light of the Crisis of Borders John Agnew6. Borders vs. Boundaries: Moving Bodies and Porous Flesh Up Against Sovereign Border Walls Edward CaseyPart Two: Philosophy 7. Hospitality Beyond Limits Nicholas Davey 8. Homeland, Territory, and Politics of Space Jesus Adrian Escudero 9. Translating as Bordering: Exclusion or Inclusion of the Foreign? Sasha Hrnjez 10. Limit or Threshold? Transgressive Experience and Its Importance for Thinking Dorthe Jørgensen 11. Ontopolitics of the Limit: Between Hegel and Derrida Gaetano Chiurazzi 12. *Title to be decided* Gianni Vattimo Part Three: Philosophy and Border Studies 13. Theorizing Borders: A Philosophical Method and Approach Søren Tinning 14. The border between the Nomad and the Monad: Theorizing B/ordering and Othering and Borderscaping Henk van Houtum 15. Border and Horizon Jeff Malpas 16. Walled Borders: Beyond the Barriers of Immunity of the Nation-States Caterina Resta 17. The Autoimmunitary Process of the Nation-State Border(s) Roxana Rodriguez Ortiz 18. Threshold Experience and the Drawing of Boundaries Bernhard Waldenfels Conclusion: Towards a Philosophical Border Studies? Anthony Cooper and Søren Tinning