Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes (BBL)

Cultures or societies and their physical surroundings are defined as much by their edges as by their centres. This series seeks to challenge the traditional view of frontiers and borders — both actual and conceptual — as places of transition and separation that bound defined environments. Instead, it encourages works that focus on the importance of peripheries as places of dynamic interaction between geographical, political, cultural or metaphorical landscapes, places where norms are challenged, connections made, and identities contested, adapted, and reformed. By inviting monographs and edited collections from scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines including anthropology, history, archaeology, and literary, geographical, and palaeographical studies, this series aims to take an interdisciplinary, global perspective that will challenge traditional perceptions of borderlands, frontiers, and landscapes in any form, real or imagined.