Walling, boundaries and liminality : a political anthropology of transformations /: a political anthropology of transformations. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ágnes Horváth, Marius Ion Bența, Joan Davison.
• Editors: Horváth, Ágnes, 1957-; Bența, Marius I; Davison, Joan Doverspike
• Contents: List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Introduction (Agnes Horvath, Marius Bența and Joan Davison ) Part I: Theorising Walling: Processes of Transformation in History 1. Walling Europe: The perverted linear transformation (Agnes Horvath ) 2. The meaning and meaninglessness of building walls (Arpad Szakolczai ) 3. Oppressive walling: Babel and the inverted order of the world (Marius Bența ) Part II Contemporary Examples for Transformations through Walling 4. Walling as encystation: A socio-historical inquiry (Glenn Bowman ) 5. Border-crossing and walling states in humanitarian work in Calcutta (Egor Novikov ) 6. Liminality and belonging: The life and the afterlives of the Berlin Wall (Harald Wydra ) 7.The Great Wall of China does not exist (Erik Ringmar ) 8. Breaching Fortress Europe: The liminal consequences of the Greek Migrant Crisis (Manussos Marangudakis ) 9. Imaginary walls and the paradox of strength (Arvydas Grišinas ) 10. Identities frozen, societies betrayed, communities divided: The US-Mexican Wall (Joan Davison ) Conclusion Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.2; Boundaries -- Social aspects; Borderlands -- Social aspects; Liminality
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351600804; 9781351600811; 9781351600798; 9781315105338
• Related ISBNs: 9781138096417
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