Walls, borders, boundaries : spatial and cultural practices in Europe /

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How is it that walls, borders, boundaries-and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion-engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how w...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ward, Janet, 1963-
Other Authors: Silberman, Marc, 1948-, Till, Karen E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Series:Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Geopolitics > Europe > History.
Territory, National > Europe.
Ethnicity > Europe > History.
Géopolitique > Europe > Histoire.
Territoire national > Europe.
Ethnicité > Europe > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Boundaries
Civilization
Ethnicity
Geopolitics
Historical geography
Territory, National
Europe > Boundaries > History.
Europe > Historical geography.
Europe > Civilization.
Europe > Géographie historique.
Europe > Civilisation.
Europe
Pays de l'Union européenne > Frontières > Histoire.
Europe > Histoire > Géographie.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : walls, borders, boundaries / Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, and Janet Ward
  • The dialectics of urban form in absolutist France / Yair Mintzker
  • The camp in the city, the city as camp : Berlin's other guarded walls / Olaf Briese
  • 'Threshold resistance' : Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation Grundgesetz / Eric Jarosinski
  • Did walls really come down? : contemporary b/ordering walls in Europe / Daniela Vicherat Mattar
  • Border guarding as spatial practice : a case study of Czech communist governance and hidden transcripts / Muriel Blaive and Thomas Lindenberger
  • A 'complicated contrivance' : West Berlin behind the wall, 1971-1989 / David Barclay
  • Moving borders and competing civilizing missions : Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement / Steffi Marung
  • Migrants, mosques, and minarets : reworking the boundaries of liberal democracy in Switzerland and Germany / Patricia Ehrkamp
  • Not our kind : generational barriers dividing postwar Albanian migrant communities / Isa Blumi
  • Invisible migrants : memory and German nationhood in the shadow of the Berlin Wall / Jeffrey Jurgens
  • Crossing boundaries in Cyprus : landscapes of memory in the demilitarized zone / Gülgün Kayim.

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