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.
Tomaz Grusovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Skof Introduction Part I: Bordering Topologies Chapter 1: Edward S. Casey Moving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies Chapter 2: Mary Watkins From Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-Neighbor Chapter 3: Eduardo Mendieta Lethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological Dispositifs Chapter 4: Helena Motoh Borders in Between-The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History Part II: Debordering Praxes Chapter 5: Victor Forte Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World Chapter 6: Mary Leonard Borders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and Flow Chapter 7: Reingard Spannring The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene Chapter 8: Tomaz Grusovnik Debordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality Part III: Worlding Hospitableness Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd Giesen Debordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of Hospitableness Chapter 10: Petri Berndtson Cultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of Hospitality Chapter 11: Lenart Skof Lamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of Hospitality Chapter 12: She Hawke Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects-Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality About the Contributors
