Building Walls and Dissolving Borders
The
Challenges of Alterity, Community
and Securitizing Space
Forthcoming book edited
by Max Stephenson and Laura Zanotti, both at Virginia Tech
“This
tough-minded and lucid collection offers
a tour of the barriers—both physical
and immaterial— that have divided the planet into festering territories of
animosity. Investigating sites both familiar and singular, these essays reveal
the ironic tenacity
of the building of walls in a globalized era in which the
production of the very idea of an inside and
an outside is radically
destabilized.”
—Michael
Sorkin, City University of New York
This
book explores 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.
Contents:
Introduction:
building walls, unmaking borders: the securitization of space and the making of
community imagination, Max Stephenson, Jr. and Laura Zanotti. Part i: Walling sPaces, making identity: Bordering violence? Natality and alterity in Hannah
Arendt’s thought, Alexander D. Barder and François Debrix; Bamboo
walls and culture:
military dependents’ villages of Taiwan, Tsungjuang Wang; Gates not
walls as a securitization strategy: gated communities and market
rate
co-operatives in New York, Setha Low, Gregory
Donovan and Jennifer
Gieseking; 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: Inside-outside, M.
Alaa Mandour; Design
as defense, broken barriers and the security spectacle at the US-Mexico border,
Timothy W. Luke; Peacekeeping power practices
and women’s insecurity in
Haiti, Marsha Henry and Paul Higate. Part iii: Walls and the hybridization oF memory:
Reading trails and inscriptions around an old bus-house in Monarga, North
Cyprus, Yonca Hurol and Guita Farivarsadri; Cultural memory after
the fall of the Berlin Wall: the case of Checkpoint Charlie, Carolyn Loeb and
Andreas Luescher. Part
iv: conclUsion: Conclusion, Max Stephenson, Jr. and Laura
Zanotti; Index.
April
2013 210 pages
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