How is it that walls, borders, boundariesand their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusionengender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation. Topics addressed range from the geopolitics of Europes historical and contemporary city walls to conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings, and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities.

Marc Silbermanis 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.

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Introduction: Walls, Borders, BoundariesMarc Silberman, Karen E. Till, and Janet Ward

PART I: CITY WALLS

Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist FranceYair Mintzker        

Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlins Other Guarded WallsOlaf Briese          

Chapter 3. Threshold Resistance: Dani Karavans Berlin InstallationGrundgesetz Eric Jarosinski

Chapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in EuropeDaniela Vicherat Mattar

PART II: BORDER ZONES

Chapter 5. Border Guarding as Social Practice: A Case Study of Czech Communist Governance and Hidden TranscriptsMuriel Blaive and Thomas Lindenberger

Chapter 6. A Complicated Contrivance: West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971-1989David Barclay

Chapter 7.Moving Borders and Competing Civilizing Missions: Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the Context of the EUs Eastern EnlargementSteffi Marung

PART III: MIGRATING BOUNDARIES

Chapter 8. Migrants, Mosques, and Minarets: Reworking the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy in Switzerland and GermanyPatricia Ehrkamp

Chapter 9. Not Our Kind: Generational Barriers Dividing Postwar Albanian Migrant CommunitiesIsa Blumi

Chapter 10. Invisible Migrants: Memory and German Nationhood in the Shadow of the Berlin WallJeffrey Jurgens

Chapter 11. Crossing Boundaries in Cyprus: Landscapes of Memory in the Demilitarized ZoneGülgün Kayim

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