Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Goldberg, David Theo

Titel

Enclosure/disclosure: writing on the wall

Ist Teil von

• Rassegna italiana di sociologia, 2013-07, Vol.54 (3), p.471-485

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Walls have more or less always been mobilized to define and refine, demarcate and reproduce otherness, those not-us, the not belonging. They have long been built to defend against the outside, emphasizing exteriority -- the alien, the strange -- as potential threat, the bearer of contagion or the plunderer, the spy or conqueror, the thief or vagrant. Ancient city walls were built to keep the outside and outsiders out. They marked boundaries and borders as they enclosed and forbade. They were intended to externalize those defined as others, and Otherness more generally, to keep them at bay, in the name of protecting the city-state. Think of Roman city walls in the 4th century BC, or the Great Wall of China in the 3rd century BC, and so on. Adapted from the source document.