Walling In and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?Laura McAtackney, Randall H. McGuire Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world--in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders. They argue that more and more walls are being built even though they are a paradox in a neoliberal world in which people, goods, and ideas are supposed to move freely. The walls examined in this volume do not share a common form or type, but they do share a common political purpose: they determine and defend racist definitions of social belonging by controlling access and movement. The contributors include archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists. They bring different perspectives and insights to the scale, form, and impact of this phenomenon of "walling in" and "walling out." |
Contents
List of Illustrations | 1 |
A History of Walls | 25 |
InVisible Codes of Neighborhood | 47 |
Chapter FOur Segregation Walls and Public Memory in Contemporary | 63 |
Israels Racist | 85 |
separation wall | 92 |
Aida Refugee Camp | 102 |
The Cold | 111 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Whose Borderland? What Evidence? Divergent Interests | 155 |
Guadalupe Hidalgo | 158 |
Reticulating | 179 |
2ac Camera arrays at a checkpoint | 182 |
CHAPTER TEN The Material and Symbolic Power of Border Walls | 195 |
The Repercussions of Walls | 211 |
References | 221 |
Contributors | 249 |
Invisible Walls and Rebordering | 131 |
5ab Boundary pillar and abandoned military post on | 146 |