Über den Autor
Janet Ward is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and author of Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity and Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. Her current work includes a co-edited collection on (trans)nationalism and the German city, and a book project on urban destruction and reconstruction.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, and Janet Ward
PART I: CITY WALLS
Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist France
Yair Mintzker
Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlin's Other Guarded Walls
Olaf Briese
Chapter 3. "Threshold Resistance": Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation Grundgesetz
Eric Jarosinski
Chapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in Europe
Daniela Vicherat Mattar
PART II: BORDER ZONES
Chapter 5. Border Guarding as Social Practice: A Case Study of Czech Communist Governance and Hidden Tranillegalscripts
Muriel Blaive and Thomas Lindenberger
Chapter 6. A "Complicated Contrivance": West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971-1989
David Barclay
Chapter 7. Moving Borders and Competing Civilizing Missions: Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the Context of the EU's Eastern Enlargement
Steffi Marung
PART III: MIGRATING BOUNDARIES
Chapter 8. Migrants, Mosques, and Minarets: Reworking the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy in Switzerland and Germany
Patricia Ehrkamp
Chapter 9. Not Our Kind: Generational Barriers Dividing Postwar Albanian Migrant Communities
Isa Blumi
Chapter 10. Invisible Migrants: Memory and German Nationhood in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall
Jeffrey Jurgens
Chapter 11. Crossing Boundaries in Cyprus: Landscapes of Memory in the Demilitarized Zone
Gülgün Kayim
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index
Klappentext
[A] revealing reflection and interpretation upon the development of post-World War II Europe. It offers a vision of imposed borders and boundaries that have become familiar yet remain disturbing; such a dichotomy is explored in various ways in the essays to make a provocative and fascinating book. The book is especially strong in the combination of the empirical and theoretical, treating borders and boundaries at many different levels from the purely physical to the social, cultural and political, as well as the symbolic. [It is]...a very welcome addition to the field." · Wendy Pullan,University of Cambridge
The volume is interdisciplinary and broadly conceptualized yet it focuses on some key aspects that give the volume sufficient focus and depth. The quality of the contributions (including the substantive introduction) is consistently high...[and] not merely a collection of pieces from various disciplines; instead many contributions speak to one another across individual disciplines, e.g., in a consideration of the ambivalent or contradictory effects of walls and boundaries-culturally, historically, and socially. · Friederike Eigler, Georgetown University
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 of Europe's historical and contemporary city walls to conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings, and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities.
Marc Silberman is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor in Theatre and Drama as well as Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published extensively on twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, film, and theater.
Karen E. Till is Lecturer of Cultural Geography at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and co-convener of the 'Mapping Spectral Traces' international network. She is author of The New Berlin, co-editor of Textures of Place, and working on a book project, Wounded Cities.
Janet Ward is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and author of Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity and Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. Her current work includes a co-edited collection on (trans)nationalism and the German city, and a book project on urban destruction and reconstruction.
