Voluminous States

Franck BillÉ is Program Director of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity and coeditor of Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World.Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and editor of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces.

• Acknowledgments  ixVoluminous: An Introduction / Franck BillÉ  1Sovereignty1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline Humphrey  392. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn  523. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss  644. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris  785. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Applying Governance / Marcel LaFlamme  91Materiality6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds  1057. Downwind: Three Phases of a Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee  1198. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary Cunningham  1319. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong / Clancy Wilmott  14610. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / GastÓn GordilloTerritorial Imagination11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green  17512. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong  19113. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons  20414. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassu / Franck BillÉ  21715. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Lisa Sang-Mi Min  230Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia  243Bibliography  253Index  279

“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty, Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.” - Marilyn Strathern, author of (Relations: An Anthropological Account) “Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics, Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.” - Stuart Elden, author of (Shakespearean Territories) “[Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.” - Martin T. Fromm (Environment, Space, Place) "The essays in Voluminous States are a landmark contribution to the anthropology of the state that needs to be urgently read not only by political anthropologists/geographers or anthropologists of space, but also by anyone interested in understanding our perilous world." - Christos Lynteris (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)