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Why Do People Desire Walls?

Source: WorldChanging

Jun 22, 2009

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The Ceuta-Morocco border fence (image)

Wanted to share with you a couple of links that have deeply interested and distressed me today and yesterday. The first one is a lecture that Wendy Brown, a professor of political science at the University of California, gave at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her recent research focuses on the concept of political sovereignty as it is connected to globalization and other transnational forces. Archived by Resist, a project i am involved in, the lecture explains how the building of walls around the world today is so starkly at odds with images of a world that is ever more connected & unbordered. Whether they aim to deter poor people, illegal workers, asylum seekers, drugs, weapons and other contraband, enslaved youth, ethnic or religious mixing, walls and fences basically do not work.

An Iraqi boy walks near a blast wall in the Karrada neighborhood. US troops are building a wall around the Adhamiya Sunni neighborhood, which is surrounded by Shia areas, north of Baghdad (photo)