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;

’This tough-minded and lucid collection offers a tour of the barriers - both physical and immaterial - that have divided the planet into festering territories of animosity. Investigating sites both familiar and singular, these essays reveal the ironic tenacity of the building of walls in a globalized era in which the production of the very idea of an inside and an outside is radically destabilized.’ Michael Sorkin, City University of New York, USA 'The geographies of border construction and the social and state practices of control highlighted in this collection expose xenophobic, often racist, and perhaps also masculinist counter-visions of the wall. Cultural geographers interested in the emotional, political, and spatial characters of these practices would find this a very useful resource. Stephenson Jr. and Zanotti's book is a rich collection in and for contempormy political times.' Journal of Cultural Geography