Urban Walls

Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces
Herausgeber: Brighenti, Andrea Mubi; Kärrholm, Mattias

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, an increasing number of separation walls have been built around the world. Walls built in urban areas are particularly striking in that they have exacted a heavy toll in terms of human suffering. As territorialising devices, walls can be protective, but the protection they grant is never straightforward. This collection invites inquiry into the complexities of the social life of walls, observing urban spaces as veritable laboratories of wall-making - places where their consequences become most visible. A study of the relationship between walls and politics, the cultural meaning of walls and their visibility, whether as barriers or as legible - sometimes spectacular - surfaces, and their importance for social processes, Urban Walls shows how walls extend into media spaces, thus drawing a multidimensional geography of separation, connection, control and resistance. As such, the collection will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture and politics with interests in urban studies and social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780367478919
• ISBN-10: 0367478919
• Artikelnr.: 58702548

Autorenporträt

Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy. Mattias Kärrholm is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction: The Life of Walls - In Urban, Spatial and Political Theory (
Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm)
1. On Walls in the Open City (Alison Young)
2. Dismantling Belfast Peace Walls: New material arrangements for improving
community relations (Florine Ballif)
3. Walling Through Seas: The Indian Ocean, Australian border security, and
the political present (Peter Chambers)
4. Walls, walling and the immunitarian imperative (Claudio Minca and
Alexandra Rijke)
5. Screening Brazil: Footnotes on a Wall (Pedro Victor Brandão and Andrea
Pavoni)
6. Warsaw Afterimages: Of Walls and Memories (Ella Chmielewska)
7. Wall Terrains. Architecture, body culture and parkour (Emma Nilsson)
8. Gating housing in Sweden: Walling in the privileged, walling out the
public (Karin Grundström)
9. The Right to the City Is the Right to the Surface: A Case for a Surface
Commons (in 8 Arguments, 34 Images and some Legal Provisions) (Sabina
Andron)
10. The Multiple Walls of Graffiti Removal. Maintenance and Urban
Assemblage in Paris (Jérôme Denis and David Pontille)
11. Walls as Fleeting Surfaces. From Bricks to Pixels, Trains to Instagram
(Lachlan MacDowall)
Index