Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces

Author:   Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy) ,  Mattias Kärrholm (Lund University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138304338


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy) ,  Mattias Kärrholm (Lund University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138304338


ISBN 10:   1138304336
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of Contributors Introduction: The Life of Walls – In Urban, Spatial and Political Theory (Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm) 1. On Walls in the Open City (Alison Young) 2. Dismantling Belfast Peace Walls: New material arrangements for improving community relations (Florine Ballif) 3. Walling Through Seas: The Indian Ocean, Australian border security, and the political present (Peter Chambers) 4. Walls, walling and the immunitarian imperative (Claudio Minca and Alexandra Rijke) 5. Screening Brazil: Footnotes on a Wall (Pedro Victor Brandão and Andrea Pavoni) 6. Warsaw Afterimages: Of Walls and Memories (Ella Chmielewska) 7. Wall Terrains. Architecture, body culture and parkour (Emma Nilsson) 8. Gating housing in Sweden: Walling in the privileged, walling out the public (Karin Grundström) 9. The Right to the City Is the Right to the Surface: A Case for a Surface Commons (in 8 Arguments, 34 Images and some Legal Provisions) (Sabina Andron) 10. The Multiple Walls of Graffiti Removal. Maintenance and Urban Assemblage in Paris (Jérôme Denis and David Pontille) 11. Walls as Fleeting Surfaces. From Bricks to Pixels, Trains to Instagram (Lachlan MacDowall) Index

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Walls and cities have long been partners, but their relationship has been understudied. This creative and important collection takes the social and political work of the urban wall seriously. Rather than a self-evident object, the wall becomes lively, talkative, mobile, and ambivalent, dividing yet also connecting. A valuable and original contribution. ã Nicholas Blomley, Professor, Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. It is a remarkable feat for an edited volume to read as cohesively and with such strong focus as Urban Walls. The walls included here (violent walls, but also vulnerable ones; aquatic, immunising, yet totally exposed and medialised walls; affective and playful, immaterial and palimpsestic walls) are marked by the wounds of history, geography and politics that surround them but also that are generated by them. These walls feel as material and fleshy as if we were placing our hand on their surface. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor, Law & Theory, University of Westminster, London. An instructive and compelling examination of walls in their multiple present forms. The emphasis on the material and vertical puts this at the heart of contemporary debates. Historically situated, richly illustrated, and with a view to wider themes as much as empirical detail, this is an important contribution to politics, geography and urban studies. Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of Warwick.


`Walls and cities have long been partners, but their relationship has been understudied. This creative and important collection takes the social and political work of the urban wall seriously. Rather than a self-evident object, the wall becomes lively, talkative, mobile, and ambivalent, dividing yet also connecting. A valuable and original contribution.' - Nicholas Blomley, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver `It is a remarkable feat for an edited volume to read as cohesively and with such strong focus as Urban Walls. The walls included here (violent walls, but also vulnerable ones; aquatic, immunising, yet totally exposed and medialised walls; affective and playful, immaterial and palimpsestic walls) are marked by the wounds of history, geography and politics that surround them but also that are generated by them. These walls feel as material and fleshy as if we were placing our hand on their surface.' - Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulosâ ¨Professor, Law & Theory, University of Westminster, London `An instructive and compelling examination of walls in their multiple present forms. The emphasis on the material and vertical puts this at the heart of contemporary debates. Historically situated, richly illustrated, and with a view to wider themes as much as empirical detail, this is an important contribution to politics, geography and urban studies.' - Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of Warwick


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Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy. Mattias Kärrholm is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Lund University, Sweden.

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