The border is best understood, as Harsha Walia explains in the opening essay of the AR’s October issue, ‘as an elastic regime that multiplies and thickens across space and time’. It operates at multiple scales, defining certain citizens as ‘desirables’ and the rest of the world as ‘undesirables’. From disputed hospitals and conservation conflicts to razed neighbourhoods and refugee camps, partition transforms places and lives. Yet, as Christina Varvia reminds us, ‘our bodies do not have any borders. Our presence is planetary.’ Read the full editorial
