| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
International comparative social studies ; volume 34 |
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International comparative social studies ; v. 34.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Walls : ways of being, ways of functioning, ways of being transformed / Alberto Gasparini -- Walls dividing, walls uniting : peace in fusion, peace in separation / Alberto Gasparini -- Why empires build walls : the new iron curtain between Africa and Europe / Max Haller -- The enlargement process and the "dividing lines of Europe" / Melania-Gabriela Ciot -- Are walls a national security issue? : a view from the United States-Mexican border / Dennis Soden and Alejandro Palma -- The Berlin Wall / Anneli Ute Gabanyi -- Vatican City-Italy wall : consolidating social and political peace / Domenico Mogavero -- The "crossings" along the divide : the Cypriot experience / Maria Hadjipavlou -- Israel-Palestine : concrete fences and fluid borders / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti -- Ordinary everyday walls : normalising exception in segregated Belfast / Hastings Donnan and Neil Jarman -- European twin cities : models, examples and problems of formal and informal co-operation / Thomas Lunden -- Scenario for the new town Gorizia/Gorica / Alberto Gasparini |
| Summary |
The Walls between Conflict and Peace discusses how walls are not merely static entities, but are in constant flux, subject to the movement of time. Walls often begin life as a line marking a radical division, but then become an area, that is to say a border, within which function civil and political societies, national and supranational societies. Such changes occur because over time cooperation between populations produces an active quest for peace, which is therefore a peace in constant movement. These are the concepts and lines of political development analysed in the book. The first part of the book deals with political walls and how they evolve into borders, or even disappear. The second part discusses possible and actual walls between empires, and also walls which may take shape within present-day empires. The third part analyses various ways of being of walls between and within states: Berlin, the Vatican State and Italy, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, Belfast, Northern European Countries, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, the USA and Mexico. In addition, discussion centres on a possible new Iron Curtain between the two Mediterranean shores and new and different walls within the EU. The last part of the book looks at how walls and borders change as a result of cooperation between the communities on either side of them. The book takes on particular relevance in the present circumstances of the proliferation of walls between empires and states and within single states, but it also analyses processes of conflict and peace which come about as a result of walls. Contributors are: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Melania-Gabriela Ciot, Hastings Donnan, Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Alberto Gasparini, Maria Hadjipavlou, Max Haller, Neil Jarman, Thomas Lunden, Domenico Mogavero, Alejandro Palma, Dennis Soden |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Boundaries -- Political aspects
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Boundaries -- Social aspects
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Boundaries -- Political aspects -- Case studies
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Boundaries -- Social aspects -- Case studies
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Humanism.
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Humanism
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humanism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Boundaries -- Social aspects
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Norms.
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Human rights.
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Humanism.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gasparini, Alberto, 1940- editor.
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| LC no. |
2016053079 |
| ISBN |
9789004272859 |
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9004272852 |
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