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001 ocn827974317
003 OCoLC
005 20191216074654.0
008 130524s2013 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013018051
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019 $a859402492
020 $a9781593765248$q(pbk.)
020 $a159376524X$q(pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)827974317$z(OCoLC)859402492
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050 00 $aJC323$b.D5 2013
082 00 $a306.2$223
084 $aHIS052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDi Cintio, Marcello,$d1973-
245 10 $aWalls :$btravels along the barricades /$cMarcello Di Cintio.
260 $aBerkeley :$bSoft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint,$c2013.
300 $a287 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world's most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast India, walks Arizona's migrant trails, and travels to Palestinian villages to witness the protests against Israel's security barrier. From Native American reservations on the U.S.-Mexico border and the "Great Wall of Montreal" to Cyprus's divided capital and the Peace Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio seeks to understand what these structures say about those who build them and how they influence the cultures that they pen in. He learns that while every wall fails to accomplish what it was erected to achieve - the walls are never solutions - each wall succeeds at something else. Some walls define Us from Them with Medieval clarity. Some walls encourage fear or feed hate. Some walls steal. Others kill. And every wall inspires its own subversion, either by the infiltrators who dare to go over, under, or around them, or by the artists who transform them."--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the wall disease -- Drawing a line in the sand : the western Sahara -- The bogeyman is coming : Ceuta and Melilla -- Zero people of no man's land : the Indo-Bangladesh fence -- A nakba of olives : the West Bank wall -- Walling absurd : Nicosia/Lefkosa -- Shun thy neighbour : the U.S./Mexico border -- The mutilated city : Belfast -- The great wall of Montreal : the l'Acadie fence.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aDi Cintio, Marcello,$d1973-$xTravel.
650 0 $aBorder security$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aBoundary disputes$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aWalls$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aFences$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aFreedom of movement$xSocial aspects.
650 7 $aHISTORY$xHistorical Geography.$2bisacsh
600 17 $aDi Cintio, Marcello,$d1973-$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00503978
650 7 $aBorder security$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01983690
650 7 $aTravel.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01155558
938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n104129085
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0012786315
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n10193963
029 1 $aAU@$b000051252801
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994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 166 OTHER HOLDINGS