Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Towards a New Art of Border Crossing

Roots and routes raise the questions of boundaries and borders and call for a new art of border crossing. Boundaries, borders, and margins are related concepts and realities and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways with variations in degrees of closure as well as openness. The existing conceptualization and organization of boundaries, borders, and margins reflect and embody a logic of statis, closure and a cult of exclusivistic, and exclusionary sovereignty. The articles argues that in this place we need a new art and politics of boundary transmutation, boundary transformation, and border crossing.