Beyond the Map
Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
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I. Unruly Islands
Les Minquiers
The United States Minor Outlying Islands and The United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago
The New Spratly Islands
Bothnia’s Rising Islands
The Philippines’ 534 Discoveries
Wild Strawberries: Traffic Island
II. Enclaves and Uncertain Nations
The Ladin Valleys
The Eruv at Bondi Beach
The Ferghana Valley
The Saharan Sand Wall
New Russia
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The Stratford Republic
III. Utopian Places
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Cybertopia
The New Nomads
Nek Chand’s Rock Garden
Christiania
Helsinki Wild Harvest
City of Helicopters
City without Ground
IV. Ghostly Places
The Phantom Tunnel of Shinjuku Station
Skywalks
The Boys Village
British Graveyard, Shimla
Dau Movie Set
Magical London
Tsunami Stones and Nuclear Markers
V. Hidden Places
Garbage City, Cairo
Off Street View: Hidden Hills and the Slums of Wanathamulla
Trap Streets
The Uncharted Congo
Flat 2, 18 Royston Mains Street, Edinburgh
Spikescape
Yulin Underground Naval Base, Hainan Island
Under Jerusalem
Doggerland
The New Arctic
Conshelf Undersea Station
Epilogue
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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