Focusing on the margins and peripheries of global politics, this volume addresses key issues within international relations including migration, sovereignty, state security, war on terror, globalization, political economy, race and ethnicity, labor, space, culture and identity.

1.International relations and "states of exception Shampa Biswas and Sheila Nair 2. Uncivil zones: terror and territoriality in the geopolitical shadowlands Suvendrini Perera 3. Geopolitical articulations: global terrorism, Southern Thailand Carlo Bonura 4. Dystopic geographies of empire Prem Kumar Rajaram 5. Sovereignty, security, and migrants: making bare life Sheila Nair 6. Imperceptible naked-lives: constructing a theoretical space to account for non-statist subjectivities Decha Tangseefa 7. Marginal life: the production of the undocumented and (il)legality at the US-Mexican border Marie Woodling 8. Biopower as a supplement to sovereign power: prison camps, war, and the production of excluded bodies Halit Mustafa Tagma 9. Economies of blackness circuit: ecologies and bodies of disaster and accumulation Anna Agathangelou 10. Ec(h)o-tourism and the whisper of the state: the "greening" of indigenous politics Elizabeth Shannon Wheatley