Walls, Borders, Boundaries : : Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe / / ed. by Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, Janet Ward.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barclay, David E.,; Blaive, Muriel,; Blumi, Isa,; Briese, Olaf,; Ehrkamp, Patricia,; Jarosinski, Eric,; Jurgens, Jeffrey,; Kayim, Gülgün,; Lindenberger, Thomas,; Marung, Steffi,; Mattar, Daniela Vicherat,; Mintzker, Yair,; Silberman, Marc,; Till, Karen E.,; Ward, Janet,
• HerausgeberIn: Silberman, Marc,; Till, Karen E.,; Ward, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Walls, Borders, Boundaries -- I City Walls -- CHAPTER 1 The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist France -- CHAPTER 2 The Camp in the City, the City as Camp Berlin’s Other Guarded Walls -- CHAPTER 3 “Threshold Resistance” Dani Karavan’s Berlin Installation Grundgesetz 49 -- CHAPTER 4 Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in Europe -- II Border Zones -- CHAPTER 5 Border Guarding as Social Practice: A Case Study of Czech Communist Governance and Hidden Transcripts -- CHAPTER 6 A “Complicated Contrivance” West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971–1989 -- CHAPTER 7 Moving Borders and Competing Civilizing Missions: Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the Context of the EU’s Eastern Enlargement -- III Migrating Boundaries -- CHAPTER 8 Migrants, Mosques, and Minarets: Reworking the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy in Switzerland and Germany -- CHAPTER 9 Not Our Kind: Generational Barriers Dividing Postwar Albanian Migrant Communities -- CHAPTER 10 Invisible Migrants: Memory and German Nationhood in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall -- CHAPTER 11 Crossing Boundaries in Cyprus: Landscapes of Memory in the Demilitarized Zone -- Works Cited -- INDEX