Geography is not enough

We would like to start by thanking Ugo Rossi who took the initiative to organize this forum in Dialogues in Human Geography. We must add that we are very pleased that geographers are among the first to discuss Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. We are not geographers, and our work on borders is not primarily conceived of as an intervention in the field of border studies. Linn Axelsson is right when she notes that many standard references in this field are absent in the 35 pages of our bibliography (although the essay by Newman and Paasi she mentions is duly listed in it). Nevertheless, the engagement with critical geographers has become more and more important for us in recent years and has helped us to make our work on borders more concrete and ‘case-sensitive’.