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 ix
Voluminous: An Introduction / Franck Billé 1
Sovereignty
1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline Humphrey 39
2. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn 52
3. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss 64
4. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris 78
5. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Applying Governance / Marcel LaFlamme 91
Materiality
6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds 105
7. Downwind: Three Phases of a Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee 119
8. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary Cunningham 131
9. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong / Clancy Wilmott 146
10. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / Gastón Gordillo
Territorial Imagination
11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green 175
12. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong 191
13. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons 204
14. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassu / Franck Billé 217
15. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Lisa Sang-Mi Min 230
Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia 243
Bibliography 253
Index 279