This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders.

Alexander C. Diener is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science at the University of Kansas, USA.

Joshua Hagen is the Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA.

List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors.1. Geographies of Visibility and Invisibility: Strategies of Spatial Control and Differentiation. Part I: Invisible Borders of Political Control. 2. No (Wo)Man's Land: Risking Detention along the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line. 3. "It's All One Place": Geographic Networks in a West African Borderland since Independence. 4. Transboundary Water Management in Separatist Regions: Towards a Geography of Hydro-Political Tensions. 5. Bordering the South China Sea: Maritime Claims, Contested Sovereignty, and Novel Territorialities. Part II: Invisible Borders of Socioeconomic Control. 6. Navigating Invisible Border Spaces in Switzerland: What Rejected Asylum Seekers' Lives Can Tell Us about Everyday Bordering Practices. 7. Airbnb and the Boundaries of the Tourist Center: How Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms Have Altered the Tourist Zone in San Sebastian, Spain. 8. Losing Ground: Indigenous Territoriality and the Núcleo Agrario in Mexico. 9. Layers and Ranges of Disabling Borders: Post-Soviet Uzbekistan. 10. "Not . . . Places of High Consequence": The Great Plains, Internal Colonization, and Pipelines in American Media Coverage. Part III: Invisible Borders of Technological Control. 11. Encrypted Geographies: Invisible Cryptographic Borders. 12. Borders in Cyberspace: The Limits to the Space of Flows. 13. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Power of Biometric Border Technologies. 14. Invisible Borders into the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Research Agenda for Invisibility.