The Resource Walls : travels along the barricades, Marcello Di Cintio
Walls : travels along the barricades, Marcello Di Cintio
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- Summary
- "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. "--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction : 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/Lefkoșa
- Shun thy neighbour : the U.S.-Mexico border
- The mutilated city : Belfast
- The great wall of Montreal : the l'Acadie fence
- Isbn
- 9781593765248
- Label
- Walls : travels along the barricades
- Title
- Walls
- Title remainder
- travels along the barricades
- Statement of responsibility
- Marcello Di Cintio
- Subject
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- trueBorderlands
- trueBoundaries
- Boundary disputes -- Social aspects
- Di Cintio, Marcello, 1973- -- Travel
- Fences -- Social aspects
- Freedom of movement -- Social aspects
- Border security -- Social aspects
- trueHuman geography
- trueNational territory
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWalls
- Walls -- Social aspects
- HISTORY / Historical Geography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. "--
- Award
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (Canada), 2012.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10161699
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Di Cintio, Marcello
- Dewey number
- 306.2
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- JC323
- LC item number
- .D5 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Di Cintio, Marcello
- Border security
- Boundary disputes
- Walls
- Fences
- Freedom of movement
- HISTORY / Historical Geography
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- travels along the barricades
- Label
- Walls : travels along the barricades, Marcello Di Cintio
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : 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/Lefkoșa -- Shun thy neighbour : the U.S.-Mexico border -- The mutilated city : Belfast -- The great wall of Montreal : the l'Acadie fence
- Control code
- 988707
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781593765248
- Lccn
- 2013018051
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781593765248
- Label
- Walls : travels along the barricades, Marcello Di Cintio
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : 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/Lefkoșa -- Shun thy neighbour : the U.S.-Mexico border -- The mutilated city : Belfast -- The great wall of Montreal : the l'Acadie fence
- Control code
- 988707
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781593765248
- Lccn
- 2013018051
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781593765248
Subject
- trueBorderlands
- trueBoundaries
- Boundary disputes -- Social aspects
- Di Cintio, Marcello, 1973- -- Travel
- Fences -- Social aspects
- Freedom of movement -- Social aspects
- Border security -- Social aspects
- trueHuman geography
- trueNational territory
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWalls
- Walls -- Social aspects
- HISTORY / Historical Geography
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