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
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Voluminous: An Introduction / Franck Billé
- Sovereignty
- 1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline Humphrey
- 2. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
- 3. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss
- 4. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris
- 5. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Appifying Governance / Marcel Laflamme
- Materiality
- 6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds
- 7. Downwind: Three Phases of an Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee
- 8. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary Cunningham
- 9. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong / Clancy Wilmott
- 10. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / Gastón Gordillo
- Territorial Imagination
- 11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green
- 12. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong
- 13. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons
- 14. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau / Franck Billé
- 15. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Lisa Sang-Mi Min
- Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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