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Berghahn Books Walls Borders Boundaries Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe 2012 Edition by Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, Janet Ward
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 walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation. Topics addressed range from the geopolitics of Europe's historical and contemporary city walls to conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings, and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Walls, Borders, BoundariesMarc Silberman, Karen E. Till, and Janet WardPART I: CITY WALLSChapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist FranceYair Mintzker Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlin's Other Guarded WallsOlaf Briese Chapter 3. "Threshold Resistance": Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation GrundgesetzEric JarosinskiChapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in EuropeDaniela Vicherat MattarPART II: BORDER ZONESChapter 5. Border Guarding as Social Practice: A Case Study of Czech Communist Governance and Hidden TranscriptsMuriel Blaive and Thomas LindenbergerChapter 6. A "Complicated Contrivance": West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971-1989David BarclayChapter 7. Moving Borders and Competing Civilizing Missions: Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the Context of the EU's Eastern EnlargementSteffi MarungPART III: MIGRATING BOUNDARIESChapter 8. Migrants, Mosques, and Minarets: Reworking the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy in Switzerland and GermanyPatricia EhrkampChapter 9. Not Our Kind: Generational Barriers Dividing Postwar Albanian Migrant CommunitiesIsa BlumiChapter 10. Invisible Migrants: Memory and German Nationhood in the Shadow of the Berlin WallJeffrey JurgensChapter 11. Crossing Boundaries in Cyprus: Landscapes of Memory in the Demilitarized ZoneGulgun KayimWorks CitedNotes on ContributorsIndex