“Borders are bureaucratic fault lines, imperious and unfriendly. It’s not surprising that so many look forward to a world without borders. Their existence is routinely critiqued by academic geographers who cast them as hostile acts of exclusion. And yet where, in a borderless world, could we escape to? Where would it be worth going? <...> For borders are far more than lines of exclusion - their profusion reflects the varied nature of people’s political and cultural choices. The paradox of borders is that they close down free movement yet suggest a world of choices and possibility. For all their faults, there is something exciting about the way borders snake over the land, about their power to impose ideas and history upon the dumb earth.”
Bonnett, A., 2014. Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places, and What They Tell Us About the World, London: Aurum Press, p. 215, 216.
