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
Gülgün Kayim
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index
