Walls : travels along the barricades

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Walls : travels along the barricades

Title remainder

travels along the barricades

Statement of responsibility

Marcello Di Cintio

Creator

• trueDi Cintio, Marcello, 1973-

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

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

Cataloging source

DLC

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