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Walling in and walling out : why are we building new barriers to divide us? /

"Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world-in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders. They argue that more and more walls are...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McAtackney, Laura, 1977- (Editor ), McGuire, Randall H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Fe : Albuquerque : School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
Colección:School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Walling in and walling out / Randall H. McGuire and Laura McAtackney
  • Barbarians at the gate: A history of walls / Randall H. McGuire
  • Part 1. Local walls
  • Race walls: (In)visible codes of neighborhood inequality in Puerto Rico / Zaire Dinzey-Flores
  • Segregation walls and public memory in contemporary Belfast: Intersections with gender and class / Laura McAtackney
  • An ongoing violence, a sustained resistance: Israel's racist separation wall at Aida Refugee Camp / Amahl Bishara
  • Part II. National walls
  • The materiality of a metaphor: The Cold War and the Berlin Wall / Anna McWilliams
  • Boundary work: Invisible walls and rebordering at the margins of Europe / Dimitris C. Papadopoulos
  • Whose borderland? what evidence? divergent interests and the impact of the US-México border wall / Michael Dear
  • Part III. Supporting walls
  • Algorithms, German shepherds, and LexisNexis: Reticulating the digital security state in the constitution-free zone / Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga
  • The material and symbolic power of border walls / Reece Jones
  • Conclusion: The repercussions of walls and their future / Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuire.