Borders and Debordering : Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness

Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/technology divisions). The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness. "Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/technology divisions). The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the?border? in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres - from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness."--Publisher's website Tomaz Grusovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart SkofIntroduction Part I: Bordering TopologiesChapter 1: Edward S. CaseyMoving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and BodiesChapter 2: Mary WatkinsFrom Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-NeighborChapter 3: Eduardo MendietaLethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological DispositifsChapter 4: Helena MotohBorders in Between-The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History Part II: Debordering PraxesChapter 5: Victor ForteBuddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated WorldChapter 6: Mary LeonardBorders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and FlowChapter 7: Reingard SpannringThe Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the AnthropoceneChapter 8: Tomaz GrusovnikDebordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality Part III: Worlding Hospitableness Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd GiesenDebordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of HospitablenessChapter 10: Petri BerndtsonCultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of HospitalityChapter 11: Lenart SkofLamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of HospitalityChapter 12: She HawkeGraft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects-Towards a New Ethics of HospitalityAbout the Contributors This Book Addresses Issues Connected With Political, Ontological, Existential, And Spiritual Borders That Define Our Being-in-common. Engaging With Various Debordering Practices Relating To Migration, The Media, Hospitality, And The More Than Human World, It Is A Timely Contribution To Contemporary Philosophical, Political, And Social Studies.