Walls, Borders, Boundaries

Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-504-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

Reihe: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silberman, Marc

Till, Karen E.

Ward, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Till, Karen E.
Karen E. Till is Lecturer of Cultural Geography at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and co-convener of the ‘Mapping Spectral Traces’ international network. She is author of The New Berlin, co-editor of Textures of Place, and working on a book project, Wounded Cities.

Silberman, Marc
Marc Silberman is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor in Theatre and Drama as well as Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published extensively on twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, film, and theater.

Ward, Janet
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.

Marc Silberman is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor in Theatre and Drama as well as Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published extensively on twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, film, and theater.