The current issue of the Journal of Frontier Studies is devoted to the complex relationships between the invisible (imaginary) world of man and the sensually perceived (real) space of existence. Being a point of their theoretical connection, the theory of Cultural exclusion and frontier zones allows to explain how cultural memory and cultural forgetting solidify (imaginary) communities, silence results in (cultural) confrontation and (social) tension, and the search for an ideal model of identity turns into borders.
Guest Editor: Sergey Troitsky, Center for Cultural Research and Intercultural Communication, Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia / Research Center for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, Sociological Institute, RAS, Russia)