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A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019
978-1-941332-45-0, 19 x 29 cm, 228 pp.
written and edited with Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual


Political borders do not exist in nature – they are always the product of cartographic and historical narratives. In the modern period many borders were traced along mountain ranges and across glaciers, which were thought to be permanent. But the ice is now melting, and so are boundary lines. Global warming is laying bare the fictions on which nation states were built. 

The book starts from the project Italian Limes (2014–2016), which surveyed and made visible the movement of Italy’s alpine boundaries. It reads the Italian case alongside a broader political history of boundary making, and examines the nexus of nation-building, cartography, and the environment in the context of a changing climate.

A Moving Border includes a foreword by Bruno Latour, and essays by Stuart Elden, Mia Fuller, Francesca Hughes, and Wu Ming 1.

 read about the book in the New Yorker, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, H-Net
 read a conversation with Wu Ming 1 (in Italian)
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