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Editorial

Vol. 7 (2026): Aesthesis: The Politics and Praxes of Un/bordering

Editorial Introduction

  • Michelle Molubi-Johnson
  • Prilly Bicknell-Hersco
  • Jellisa Ricketts
  • Jay Williams
  • Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa
Submitted
June 17, 2026
Published
2026-06-17

Abstract

What does a border do, and how is it un/done? New Sociology’s 7th issue, Aesthesis: The Politics and Praxes of Un/bordering, responds to this question, foregrounding the process of aesthesis. To approach un/bordering through aesthesis is to ask how power governs, and how this governance is in turn felt, sensed, rehearsed, and contested in everyday life. It is also to ask how people make, feel, and see otherwise beyond the arrangements of enclosure that seek to define the world as is. The works gathered below explore these inquiries, united by their refusal to leave the border at the level of a line, wall, checkpoint, or prison. Borders instead emerge as social relations, practices, and sensations; that which routes movement, organizes care, disciplines passage and shapes the terms upon which people are seen, heard, and made to belong.