Walling, boundaries and liminality a political anthropology of transformations / edited by Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Ben£̀Ưa and Joan Davison.
| Other author | Horv©Łth, ©gnes, 1957- |
| Other author | Ben€›a, Marius I. |
| Other author | Davison, Joan Doverspike. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | xvii, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contemporary liminality ; 7 |
| Contents | Walling Europe : the perverted linear transformation / Agnes Horvath -- The meaning and meaninglessness of building walls / Arpad Szakolczai -- Oppressive walling : Babel and the inverted order of the world / Marius Ben£̀Ưa -- Walling as encystation : a socio-historical inquiry / Glenn Bowman -- Border-crossing and walling states in humanitarian work in Calcutta / Egor Novikov -- Liminality and belonging : the life and the afterlives of the Berlin Wall / Harald Wydra -- The Great Wall of China does not exist / Erik Ringmar -- Breaching fortress Europe : the liminal consequences of the Greek Migrant Crisis / Manussos Marangudakis -- Imaginary walls and the paradox of strength / Arvydas Gri¿Łinas -- Identities frozen, societies betrayed, communities divided : the US-Mexican Wall / Joan Davison. |
| Abstract | "Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration, and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long dur©♭e by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating insights from archaeology and anthropology. Such an approach, far from being simply academic, has crucial contemporary relevance, as its focus on origins helps to locate the essential dynamics of this practice, and provides a rare external position from which to view the phenomenon as a transformative exercise, with the area walled serving as an artificial womb or matrix. The modern world, with its ingrained ideas of borders, nation states and other entities, often makes it is very difficult to gain a critical distance and detachment to see beyond conventional perspectives. The unique approach of this book offers an antidote to this problem. Cases discussed in the book range from Palaeolithic caves, the ancient walls of G©œbekli Tepe, Jericho, and Babylon, to the foundation of Rome, the Chinese Empire, medieval Europe and the Berlin Wall. The book also looks at contemporary developments such as the Palestinian wall, Eastern and Southern European examples, Trump's proposed Mexican wall, the use of Greece as a bulwark containing migration flows, and the transformative experience of voluntary work in a Calcutta hospice. In doing so, the book offers a political anthropology of one of the most fundamental yet perennially problematic human practices: the constructing of walls. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and political theory"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018009650 |
| ISBN | 9781138096417 (hbk) |
| ISBN | (ebk) |
| ISBN | ebook |
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