Building Walls and Dissolving Borders

The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27163-0 (ISBN)

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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 this era, when social containers have become porous, proximity has been redefined, circulation has intensified and the state as a way of organizing political life is being questioned. The authors analyze how walls articulate with other social boundaries to address feelings of vulnerability and anxiety and how they embody governmental processes, public and social contestation, fears and notions of identity and alterity. This book’s authors explore walls as the consequence of a changing web of social relationships. Whether walls are physical objects on the landscape or metaphors for difference among specific groups or communities, the writers consider them as heterotopias, powerful sites around which ways of living together are contested and transformed. They also investigate how architectural planning concerning walls may de facto become a means of waging war, as well as how demolishing walls may give way to new ways of imagining security.

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.

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-138-27163-2 / 1138271632
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27163-0 / 9781138271630
Zustand	Neuware