Border Exposures

How can we understand borders when uncertainty is an everyday experience in the context of bordering? This book offers a new perspective on borderlands and shows how borders organize uncertainty, make it tangible, and render it visible. The concept of ‘Border Exposure’ describes processes in which the vulnerability generated by borders and the contingency of bordering become visible. The study examines these processes drawing on subversive strategies employed, for example, by queer groups in the German-Polish border region, the Turów open-pit lignite mining conflict, and refugee shelters in Berlin. It is intended for readers in the fields of border studies as well as spatial, migration, and visual social research.