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— Jeremy G. Tasch, Professor and Graduate Studies Director, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, Towson University
This collection mobilizes translation and re-translation between wildly diverse languages and writers to combat the 'ontological terrorism' cornering us all within cultural, political and linguistic borders. It is a blend of harmony and dissonance, promoting otherwise impossible encounters and understanding.
— Luise von Flotow, Professor, School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa
Now is the time for Borders de Todos Lados, which boldly unites peoples and histories across time and continents to interrogate and challenge the necropolitical practices shaping our urgent moment.
— Lisa Alvarez, editor, Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers (Heyday, 2021), and author, Some Final Beauty and other Stories (Nevada University Press, 2025).
Julia Sushytska (Edited by)
Julia Sushytska is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. Sushytska is co-translator and co-editor of A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili (ibidem-Verlag 2020), and co-editor of Both Sides Face East: Durable Words (Academic Studies Press 2025).
Christian Fernández Huerta (Edited by)
Christian Alonso Fernandez Huerta holds a PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), and works for UABC’s Institute of Cultural Research – Museum of Mexicali. He is co-author of Digital Ethnographies: Ethnographic approaches in the era of digital hypermediatization (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2024).
Alisa Slaughter (Edited by)
Alisa Slaughter is a writer and translator from Southern California. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Slaughter is the author of Bad Habitats (Gold Line Press 2013), co-translator and co-editor of A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili (ibidem-Verlag 2020), and co-editor of Both Sides Face East: Durable Words (Academic Studies Press 2025).
Botakoz Kassymbekova (Foreword by)
Botakoz Kassymbekova is Professor of East European History at the University of Zurich.