189 CHAPTER 12 Trans-Scapes Transitions in Transit Irene J. Klaver It is easy enough to turn to a dictionary or to an online etymology and see that “transit” has its roots in Latin: trans (across) plus ire (to go;). How though are we to think deeply about the subtleties of “trans” in a world where people are in transit for fear of their lives; where prod- ucts are routinely in trans-oceanic transit; where medications can be delivered transdermally; we can use a website to plan when we can see International Space Station lunar and solar transit events. How might we think of states of change over time/space when they are immediately obvious—driving away from a hurricane or a forest fire; and when they are not so obvious—indigenous people attempting to do what they have always done where they have always done it, only to find some other governing body claims hegemony? Here I lay out a small cluster of provocations that lay out a landscape through which to meander, engaging here with insights, there with com- plexities, eventually to have carved a pattern of understanding rather than to have simply transitioned from one state to some predetermined goal state. Being in transit is predicated upon boundaries, that is, on demarca- tions in space and time. How these demarcations take place, and how © The Author(s) 2018 R. Scapp and B. Seitz (eds.), Philosophy, Travel, and Place, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98225-0_12 I. J. Klaver (*) University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA e-mail: Irene.Klaver@unt.edu