Building Walls and Dissolving Borders

Max Stephenson is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Policy & Governance, Virginia Tech and Laura Zanotti is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.

Introduction Building Walls, Unmaking Borders: the Securitization of Space and the Making of Community Imagination, Max O. StephensonJr., Laura Zanotti; Part I Walling Spaces, Making Identity; Chapter 1 Bordering Violence? Natality and Alterity in Hannah Arendt’s Thought, Alexander D. Barder, François Debrix; Chapter 2 Bamboo Walls: Military Dependents’ Villages of Taiwan as Cultural Heterotopias, Tsung Juang Wang; Chapter 3 Gates not Walls as a Securitization Strategy: Gated Communities and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York, Setha Low, Gregory T. Donovan, Jen Jack Gieseking; Chapter 4 Tinkering with Space: Heterotopic Walls and the Privileged Imaginary of the “New Belfast”, Scott Tate; Part II Enclosing a Porous World, Securitizing the Movement of People; Chapter 5 Inside-Outside: The Making of the West Bank Security Wall, M. Alaa Mandour; Chapter 6 Design as Defense: Broken Barriers and the Security Spectacle at the US–Mexico Border, Timothy W. Luke; Chapter 7 1This study was conducted before the 2010 earthquake and therefore does not take into account new forms of spatialization that may have occurred as a result of that event., Marsha Henry, Paul Higate; Part III Walls and the Hybridization of Memory; Chapter 8 Reading Trails and Inscriptions Around an Old Bus-house in Monarga, North Cyprus, Yonca Hurol, Guita Farivarsadri; Chapter 9 Cultural Memory after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Case of Checkpoint Charlie, Carolyn Loeb, Andreas Luescher; Part IV Conclusions; conclusion Conclusions;