The Unmaking

Abstract

This chapter offers an analysis into the unmaking practices of the political borders as thickening entities. It defines these unmaking practices not only as reactions and economic survival tactics but also as consequences of diversifying epistemological and ontological aspects of the local communities and cartographic understandings of places and regions confronting the statist narrative. In this chapter, various acts of local people’s border crossings are defined as fundamental unmaking practices. Secondly, local people’s perception and approaches to the border and their diverse forms of use and abuse of landmined zone are also defined as unmaking practices of the border during which emotions of fear, death, loss, and conceptions of faith and destiny in the everyday lives of local subjects come into play.