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Viscous Performances examines the endurance of creative protest performances in Chile from the 2011 student mobilizations to the aftermath of the 2019 social revolt. Drawing from performance theory, feminist new materialisms, affect studies, and decolonial perspectives, María José Contreras Lorenzini situates Chilean practices of resistance within a global conversation about the politics of performance while attending closely to the historical and material specificities of the Chilean context. Case studies include student interventions, feminist mobilizations, and commemorative actions that unfolded along a two-kilometer stretch of Santiago’s main avenue, La Alameda. Contreras Lorenzini argues that repeated creative resistances that insistently occupied this same urban corridor generated a sticky, persistent, and affectively charged antidote to neoliberalism’s slow violence. These temporally dispersed acts territorialized the urban space as a site of resistance where echoes and reverberations of repertoires accumulated, thickened, and remained available for reenactment. By theorizing resistance as viscous rather than fleeting, Viscous Performances challenges neoliberal framings of dissent that privilege visibility and spectacle and highlights the quieter, less visible practices of care, collaboration, and imagination through which communities sustain long-term struggles.

From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil. Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance. In case studies ranging from the United States, Europe, and the Himalayas to Hong Kong, Korea, and Bangladesh, the contributors outline how states are using airspace surveillance, maritime patrols, and subterranean monitoring to gain and exercise sovereignty over three-dimensional space. Whether examining how militaries are digging tunnels to create new theaters of operations, the impacts of climate change on borders, or the relation between borders and nonhuman ecologies, they demonstrate that a three-dimensional approach to studying borders is imperative for gaining a fuller understanding of sovereignty.

Contributors. Debbora Battaglia, Franck Billé, Wayne Chambliss, Jason Cons, Hilary Cunningham (Scharper), Klaus Dodds, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Gastón Gordillo, Sarah Green, Tina Harris, Caroline Humphrey, Marcel LaFlamme, Lisa Sang Mi Min, Aihwa Ong, Clancy Wilmott, Jerry Zee