Building walls and dissolving borders the challenges of alterity, community and securitizing space
This book explores walls as the consequence of a changing web of social relationships. Whether walls are physical objects on the landscape or metaphors for difference among specific groups or communities, the writers consider them as heterotopias, powerful sites around which ways of living together...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxon, UK
Ashgate Publishing Routledge
2013
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| Summary: | This book explores walls as the consequence of a changing web of social relationships. Whether walls are physical objects on the landscape or metaphors for difference among specific groups or communities, the writers consider them as heterotopias, powerful sites around which ways of living together are contested and transformed. They also investigate how architectural planning concerning walls may de facto become a means of waging war, as well as how demolishing walls may give way to new ways of imagining security |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 204 pages illustrations 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781409438359 (hardback : alk.paper) |