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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
Janet Ward is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and author of
Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity and
Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. Her current work includes a co-edited collection on (trans)nationalism and the German city, and a book project on urban destruction and reconstruction.
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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.
