ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the semiotic reading of two falling structures: the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers in New York. As far as Bauman's feminist perspective on cosmopolitanism and gender in Europe is concerned the tension between symbolic community boundaries and gender requires further analysis. Historically, nation states have targeted nomadic minority ethnic groups in their cosmopolitan habits. Today, the United States (US) global bonding effect resonates with a revived form of territorial-spatial anchoring; the European experiences with fundamentalist Islamic terrorism engender European Union managed security interests. Samir Amin argues that Eurocentric culture presents itself as 'particularly European, rationalist, and secular ideology, while claiming a worldwide scope'. The gendering of contemporary political community boundaries entails that we have to look more closely at the cultural binding strategies with respect to current EU anti-discrimination law alongside anti-'extremist'/fundamentalist illegalising measures.
