This paper examines how anxieties about ethnic identity proliferate as state borders begin to shift and open in response to accelerating possibilities of cross‐border cooperation. As the border becomes more porous, social and cultural boundaries become marked in other ways, spatially re‐scaled to reflect new uncertainties consequent upon border change. Using an example from the Irish land border, the paper traces how national space is re‐imagined and re‐placed in the everyday practices of residents in a violent border zone from which the state is ostensibly retreating. It shows that communal division is as sharply drawn as ever at a time when the ‘visibility’ of the state border itself is beginning to diminish.
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