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Urban Walls

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Urban Walls book

Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces

Urban Walls

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Urban Walls book

Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces
Edited ByAndrea Mubi Brighenti, Mattias Kärrholm
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 3 September 2018
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730225
Pages 270 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203730225
SubjectsDevelopment Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
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Brighenti, A. (Ed.), Kärrholm, M. (Ed.). (2018). Urban Walls. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730225

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

The life of walls – in urban, spatial and political theory
WithAndrea Mubi Brighenti, Mattias Kärrholm

chapter 1|18 pages

On walls in the open city

WithAlison Young

chapter 2|24 pages

Dismantling Belfast peace walls

New material arrangements for improving community relations
WithFlorine Ballif

chapter 3|20 pages

Walling through seas

The Indian Ocean, Australian border security, and the political present
WithPeter Chambers

chapter 4|15 pages

Walls, walling and the immunitarian imperative 1

WithClaudio Minca, Alexandra Rijke

chapter 5|25 pages

Screening BrazilFootnotes on a wall

WithPedro Victor Brandão, Andrea Pavoni

chapter 6|25 pages

Warsaw afterimages

Of walls and memories
WithElla Chmielewska

chapter 7|25 pages

Wall terrains

Architecture, body culture and parkour
WithEmma Nilsson

chapter 8|22 pages

Gating housing in Sweden

Walling in the privileged, walling out the public from public places
WithKarin Grundström

chapter 9|24 pages

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)
WithSabina Andron

chapter 10|21 pages

The multiple walls of graffiti removal

Maintenance and urban assemblage in Paris
WithJérôme Denis, David Pontille

chapter 11|19 pages

Walls as fleeting surfaces

From bricks to pixels, trains to Instagram
WithLachlan MacDowall
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