Radhika Mohanram is a Professor at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK.Anindya Raychaudhuri is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.

• IntroductionRadhika Mohanram and Anindya Raychaudhuri1. The 1947 Partition Violence: Characteristics and InterpretationsIan Talbot2. The Socio-Historical Production of Partition in PalestineMarcelo Svirsky and Ronnen Ben-Arie3. Sexuality after Partition: The Great Indian Private SphereRadhika Mohanram4. Lessons not Learned from the Yugoslav Dismemberment and their Implications for the European Union Stefano Bianchini5. Legacies of Partition: Remembering the German Democratic Republic Chris Weedon6. Legacy of Indian partitionSamuel Sequeira7. Post-partition anxieties and the matter of authenticity in IrelandLouise Harrington8. Drawing Partition and Its Violence: Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s This Side, That SideVedita Cowaloosur9. Advertising (Across) Borders: Fetishizing Humanism and the “Magic” of CapitalismAnindya Raychaudhuri10. Following a Theory of PartitionJennifer Yusin

This book could not be more timely, given the hysteria with which national borders are being increasingly ‘protected’. The essays demonstrate that partitions are not erected to keep violent communities away from each other, nor are they simply historically erected border walls, but are the result of ongoing political processes whose consequences spread wide and deep in contemporary communities. These analyses of partitions are both comprehensive and astute and throw a great deal of light upon the bordering practices operating in the world today.