Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space - Couverture rigide

 
9781409438359: Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space
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ISBN 10 : 140943835X ISBN 13 : 9781409438359
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together. Globalization and urbanization have created high population density, rapid migration, growing poverty, income inequality and frequent discontent and conflict among heterogeneous populations. The writers in this volume explore how walls are changing in this era, when social containers have become porous, proximity has been redefined, circulation has intensified and the state as a way of organizing political life is being questioned. The authors analyze how walls articulate with other social boundaries to address feelings of vulnerability and anxiety and how they embody governmental processes, public and social contestation, fears and notions of identity and alterity. This book's authors explore 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Max Stephenson is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Policy & Governance, Virginia Tech and Laura Zanotti is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
140943835X
ISBN 13 
9781409438359
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
218
Éditeur
Stephenson Max O.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1138271632 ISBN 13 :  9781138271630
Editeur : Routledge, 2016
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