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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792076403321

Titolo

Building walls and dissolving borders [[electronic resource] ] : the challenges of alterity, community and securitizing space / / edited by Max O. Stephenson, Jr. and Laura Zanotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England, : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

1-315-57051-3

1-317-17079-2

1-299-26347-X

1-4094-3836-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StephensonMax O

ZanottiLaura

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Boundaries

Emigration and immigration

Collective memory

Outer space Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Walling spaces, making identity -- pt. II. Enclosing a porous world, securitizing the movement of people -- pt. III. Walls and the hybridization of memory -- pt. IV. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

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.