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Building Walls and Dissolving Borders The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space
Edited By Max O. Stephenson
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
218 Pages
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Routledge
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Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together. Globalization and urbanization have created high population density, rapid migration, growing poverty, income inequality and frequent discontent and conflict among heterogeneous populations. The writers in this volume explore how walls are changing in... Read more
Introduction Building Walls, Unmaking Borders: the Securitization of Space and the Making of Community Imagination, Max O. StephensonJr., Laura Zanotti; Part I Walling Spaces, Making Identity; Chapter 1 Bordering Violence? Natality and Alterity in Hannah Arendt’s Thought, Alexander D. Barder, François Debrix; Chapter 2 Bamboo Walls: Military Dependents’ Villages of Taiwan as Cultural Heterotopias, Tsung Juang Wang; Chapter 3 Gates not Walls as a Securitization Strategy: Gated Communities and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York, Setha Low, Gregory T. Donovan, Jen Jack Gieseking; Chapter 4 Tinkering with Space: Heterotopic Walls and the Privileged Imaginary of the “New Belfast”, Scott Tate; Part II Enclosing a Porous World, Securitizing the Movement of People; Chapter 5 Inside-Outside: The Making of the West Bank Security Wall, M. Alaa Mandour; Chapter 6 Design as Defense: Broken Barriers and the Security Spectacle at the US–Mexico Border, Timothy W. Luke; Chapter 7 1This study was conducted before the 2010 earthquake and therefore does not take into account new forms of spatialization that may have occurred as a result of that event., Marsha Henry, Paul Higate; Part III Walls and the Hybridization of Memory; Chapter 8 Reading Trails and Inscriptions Around an Old Bus-house in Monarga, North Cyprus, Yonca Hurol, Guita Farivarsadri; Chapter 9 Cultural Memory after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Case of Checkpoint Charlie, Carolyn Loeb, Andreas Luescher; Part IV Conclusions; conclusion Conclusions;
Biography
Max Stephenson is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Policy & Governance, Virginia Tech and Laura Zanotti is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.
The volume is a collection of [...] remarkable cases.
Isidro Maya-Jariego
