Walls, Borders, Boundaries : : Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe /

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

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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 w...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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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

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