BUILDING WALLS AND DISSOLVING BORDERS
For Adam and Scott
MOS
For my parents
LZ
Building Walls and Dissolving Borders
The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space
Edited by
MAX O. STEPHENSON, JR. and LAURA ZANOTTI
both at Virginia Tech, USA
First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Building walls and dissolving borders : the challenges of alterity, community and securitizing space.
1. Segregation. 2. Conflict management. 3. Other (Philosophy)
I. Stephenson, Max O. II. Zanotti, Laura.
304.2-dc23
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Stephenson, Max O.
Building walls and dissolving borders : the challenges of alterity, community and securitizing space / By Max O. Stephenson Jr. and Laura Zanotti.
pages ; cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-3835-9 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Boundaries. 2. Emigration and immigration. 3. Space--Social aspects. 4. Collective memory. I. Zanotti, Laura. II. Title.
JC323.S85 2013
320.12--dc23
2012038862
ISBN 978-1-4094-3835-9 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-3155-7051-8 (ebk)
Contents
Max O. Stephenson, Jr. and Laura Zanotti
Alexander D. Barder and Franois Debrix
Tsung Juang Wang
Setha Low, Gregory T. Donovan, Jen Jack Gieseking
Scott Tate
M. Alaa Mandour
Timothy W. Luke
Marsha Henry and Paul Higate
Yonca Hurol and Guita Farivarsadri
Carolyn Loeb and Andreas Luescher
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Alexander D. Barder is currently a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Universitys Department of Political Science. His dissertation, entitled, Empire Within: Imperial Laboratories and State Formation, examines the relationship between domestic Western state formation and empire-building in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author, with Francois Debrix, of Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence and Horror in World Politics (Routledge 2012). His work has also appeared in Theory & Event, International Political Sociology, Journal of International Political Theory, Etudes Internationales and Philosophy in Review.
Franois Debrix is a professor of Political Science and Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) doctoral program at Virginia Tech. His most recent books are Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics, co-authored with Alexander Barder (Routledge 2012), The Geopolitics of American Insecurity, edited with Mark Lacy (Routledge 2009), and Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics (Routledge 2008) .
Gregory T. Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research focuses on the political ecology of information. His dissertation, MyDigitalFootprint.org, is a participatory action research project with New York City youth that explores the everyday experiences of young people developing in proprietary digital environments. He has held fellowships at The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the William E. Macaulay Honors College CUNY and the Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy. He is also the founder and current coordinator of the OpenCUNY.org Academic Medium.
Guita Farivarsadri graduated from the Department of Industrial Design in the Middle East Technical University in 1989. She has since received a masters degree in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and a Ph.D. in Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University, Ankara. She is currently head of the Department of Industrial Design at the Eastern Mediterranean University. Her major fields of study are design education and human behavior in architectural space.
Jen Jack Gieseking is Visiting Assistant Research Professor at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research as a cultural geographer and environmental psychologist focuses on the everyday co-productions of space and identity that support or inhibit social, spatial and economic justice. She is working on her first book, Queer NewYork: Lesbians and Queer Womens Experiences of Social and Spatial Justice in New York City, 19832008.
Marsha Henry is a lecturer at The London School of Economics and Political Science, Gender Institute and is the co-author of one book and author of multiple articles and book chapters. Her interests include gender, development, representation and security. Before taking up her post at LSE, she was a lecturer in the School for Policy Studies (20022006) and the Politics Department at the University of Bristol (20062009).
Paul Higate is Reader in Gender and Security at the School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies, the University of Bristol. He also is a Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Councils Global Uncertainties Programme and is conducting a research project entitled, Mercenary Masculinities Imagine Security: The case of the Private Military Contractor. He has written on the gendered culture of the military, the experiences of veterans, peacekeeping and, most recently, about private and military security companies.
Yonca Hurol graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture in Turkey in 1984. She completed her Ph.D. at Gazi University, Department of Architecture in Turkey in 1992. She became an assistant professor of building science there in 1993 and an associate professor in 2007. She has been a member of the Department of Architecture of Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus since 1998. She has published four articles concerning architectural problems in disaster/war zones.
Carolyn Loeb is associate professor of art and architectural history in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. She is the author of Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers Subdivisions in the 1920s