Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe

by Janet Ward

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857455044
• ISBN13: 9780857455048
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"