Borders and border studies / Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan -- Partition / Brendan O'Leary -- Culture theory and the US-Mexico border / Josiah McC. Heyman -- The African Union Border Programme in European comparative perspective / Anthony I. Asiwaju -- European politics of borders, border symbolism and cross-border cooperation / James Wesley Scott -- Securing borders in Europe and North America / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly -- Border regimes, the circulation of violence and the neo-authoritarian turn / John Borneman -- Borders in the new imperialism / James Anderson -- Contested states, frontiers and cities / Liam O'Dowd -- The state, hegemony and the historical British-US border / Allan K. McDougall and Lisa Philips -- Nations, nationalism and "borderzation" in the Southern Cone / Alejandro Grimson -- Debordering hte rebordering the United Kingdom / Cathal McCall -- "Swarming" at the frontiers of France, 1870-1885 / Olivier Thomas Kramsch -- Borders and conflict resolution / David Newman -- Chaos and order along the (former) Iron Curtain / Mathijs Pelkmans -- Border security as late-capitalist "fix" / Brenda Chalfin -- Identity, the state and borderline disorder / Dan Rabinowitz -- African boundaries and the new capitalist frontier / Timothy Raeymaekers -- Bandits, borderlands and opium wars in Afghanistan / Jonathan Goodhand -- Biosecurity, quarantine and life across the border / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Permeabilities, ecology and goepolitical boundaries / Hilary Cunningham -- Borders and the rhythms of displacement, emplacement and mobility / Pamela Ballinger -- Remapping borders / Henk van Houtum -- From border policing to internal immigration control in the United States / Mathew Coleman -- Labor migration, trafficking and border controls / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons -- Spatial strategies for rebordering human migration at sea / Alison Mountz and Nancy Hiemstra -- "B/ordering" and biopolitics in Central Asia / Nick Megoran -- Border, scene and obscene / Nicholas De Genova -- Border show business and performing states / David B. Coplan -- Performativity and the eventfulness of bordering practices / Robert J. Kaiser -- Reconceptualizing the space of the Mexico-US borderline / Robert R. Alvarez, Jr. -- Border towns and cities in comparative perspective / Paul Nugent -- A sense of border / Sarah Green

1. Boundaries
2. Borderlands
3. Political geography
4. Human geography