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Reflective of the "spatial turn" in the humanities and social sciences, this collection brings together scholars from the fields of anthropology, cultural and religious studies, geography, history, literature, performance art, political science, and sociology to examine spatial and cultural practices of city walls, border zones, and boundaries in Europe. The editors (respectively, professors of German and theatre, cultural geography, and history at the U. of Wisconsin, US; the National U. of Ireland Maynooth; and the U. of Oklahoma, US) present 11 papers examining such topics as the dialectics of urban form in absolutist France, contemporary (b)ordering walls in Europe, border guarding as social practice in the case of Czech communist governance, borders and the European Union's eastern enlargement, Islamic migration and the boundaries of liberal democracy in Switzerland and Germany, generational barriers dividing postwar Albanian migrant communities, and landscapes of memory in the Cyprus demilitarized zone. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Reflective of the "spatial turn" in the humanities and social sciences, this collection brings together scholars from the fields of anthropology, cultural and religious studies, geography, history, literature, performance art, political science, and sociology to examine spatial and cultural pract...
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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.
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.
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.
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. Janet Ward is Professor of History at the Un...
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