Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Walls, Borders, Boundaries Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, and Janet Ward PART I: CITY WALLS Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist France Yair Mintzker Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlin's Other Guarded Walls Olaf Briese Chapter 3. "Threshold Resistance": Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation Grundgesetz Eric Jarosinski Chapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in Europe Daniela Vicherat Mattar PART II: BORDER ZONES Chapter 5. Border Guarding as Social Practice: A Case Study of Czech Communist Governance and Hidden Transcripts Muriel Blaive and Thomas Lindenberger Chapter 6. A "Complicated Contrivance": West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971-1989 David Barclay Chapter 7. Moving Borders and Competing Civilizing Missions: Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the Context of the EU's Eastern Enlargement Steffi Marung PART III: MIGRATING BOUNDARIES Chapter 8. Migrants, Mosques, and Minarets: Reworking the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy in Switzerland and Germany Patricia Ehrkamp Chapter 9. Not Our Kind: Generational Barriers Dividing Postwar Albanian Migrant Communities Isa Blumi Chapter 10. Invisible Migrants: Memory and German Nationhood in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall Jeffrey Jurgens Chapter 11. Crossing Boundaries in Cyprus: Landscapes of Memory in the Demilitarized Zone Gulgun Kayim Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
