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Demarcation is a books category devoted to the making, meaning, and consequences of boundaries—literal and metaphorical. It gathers fiction and nonfiction that probe lines between nations and neighborhoods, classes and cultures, legality and illegality, public and private, human and machine, fact and belief. From borderlands and partition narratives to memoirs of belonging and exile, from reportage on checkpoints and zoning to cartography, jurisprudence, and the philosophy of science’s “demarcation problem,” these works examine who draws boundaries, who is contained or excluded, and what unfolds when lines are enforced, blurred, or crossed. Speculative tales of walls and wards sit alongside studies of sovereignty and surveillance, all foregrounding the lived experience and politics of separation and passage. As a category, Demarcation invites readers to question inherited divisions and to imagine how borders might be redrawn—or dismantled—to create new possibilities for community and knowledge.

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