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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Santa Fe : Albuquerque :
School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press,
2020.
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Series: | School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.