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Italy's northern border follows the watershed that separates the
drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at
high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers-all of
which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic climate change.
As the watershed shifts so does the border, contradicting its
representations on official maps. Italy, Austria, and Switzerland
have consequently introduced the novel legal concept of a "moving
border," one that acknowledges the volatility of geographical
features once thought to be stable. A Moving Border: Alpine
Cartographies of Climate Change builds upon the Italian Limes
project by Studio Folder, which was devised in 2014 to survey the
fluctuations of the boundary line across the Alps in real time. The
book charts the effects of climate change on geopolitical
understandings of border and the cartographic methods used to
represent them. Locating the Italian condition alongside a longer
political history of boundary making, the book brings together
critical essays, visualizations, and unpublished documents from
state archives. By examining the nexus of nationalism and
cartography, A Moving Border details how borders are both material
and imagined, and the ways global warming challenges Western
conceptions of territory. Even more, it provides a blueprint for
spatial intervention in a world where ecological processes are
bound to dominate geopolitical affairs. A Moving Border features a
foreword by Bruno Latour and texts by Stuart Elden, Mia Fuller,
Francesca Hughes, and Wu Ming 1, and is co-published with ZKM |
Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
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