Border Walls
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Border Walls

Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel

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eBook - ePub

Border Walls

Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel

About this book

*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5, 700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Table and maps
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: fortress democracy
  10. 1 Borders, barriers, and the war on terror
  11. 2 Securing the ‘homeland’ in the United States
  12. 3 Border fencing and the global war on terror in India
  13. 4 ‘Arafat is our bin Laden’: territory and terrorism in Israel and Palestine
  14. 5 Building up, rippling out: enforcement practices at the US–Mexican border
  15. 6 The agents of exception in the Indian borderlands
  16. 7 The practices of insecurity: the barrier in the West Bank
  17. 8 The enduring significance of borders
  18. Appendix: methodology and methods
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. About Zed Books