
Walling In and Walling Out
Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?
- 272 pages
- English
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Walling In and Walling Out
Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?
About this book
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 being built even though they are a paradox in a neoliberal world in which people, goods, and ideas are supposed to move freely. The walls examined in this volume do not share a common form or type, but they do share a common political purpose: they determine and defend racist definitions of social belonging by controlling access and movement. The contributors include archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists. They bring different perspectives and insights to the scale, form, and impact of this phenomenon of "walling in" and "walling out."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Walling In and Walling Out by Randall H. McGuire and Laura McAtackney
- Chapter 2. Barbarians at the Gate: A History of Walls by Randall H. McGuire
- Part 1. Local Walls
- Chapter 3. Race Walls: (In)Visible Codes of Neighborhood Inequality in Puerto Rico by Zaire Dinzey-Flores
- Chapter 4. Segregation Walls and Pub,ic Memory in Contemporary Belfast: Intersections with Gender and Class by Laura McAtackney
- Chapter 5. An Ongoing Violence, a Sustained Resistance: Israel’s Racist Separation Wall at Aida Refugee Camp by Amahl Bishara
- Part 2. National Walls
- Chapter 6. The Materiality of a Metaphor: The Cold War and the Berlin Wall by Anna McWilliams
- Chapter 7. Boundary Work: Invisible Walls and Rebordering at the Margins of Europe by Dimitris C. Papadopoulus
- Chapter 8. Whose Borderland? What Evidence? Divergent Interests and the Impact of the US-Mexico Border Wall by Michael Dear
- Part Three. Supporting Walls
- Chapter 9. Algorithms, German Shepherds, and LexisNexis: Reticulating the Digital Security State in the Constitution-Free Zone by Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Diaz-Barriga
- Chapter 10. The Material and Symbolic Power of Border Walls by Reece Jones
- Chapter 11. Conclusion: The Repercussions of Walls and Their Future by Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuire
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index