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Lädt ... Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (2012)von Marcello Di Cintio
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 3.5 stars Marcello di Cintio decided to travel to various walls/fences/borders to not only see them, but to talk to the people living alongside them and others about how the walls affect their lives. Included in this is some history and politics about how and why the walls went up. Some of the places di Cintio visited included the Western Sahara, the Israel/Palestine border, India/Bangladesh, Cyprus (there is a wall that divides the city), Arizona/Mexico, Belfast, and even one in my (and the author's) home country, Canada (in Montreal). This was interesting. People are affected in so many different ways – farmers are divided from their fields in some cases, Protestants divided from Catholics, the US is trying to keep out Mexican immigrants, and in Montreal, the wall simply divides one of the affluent areas from a poor immigrant neighbourhood. I have to admit that I found the “Western” areas more interesting (Belfast, US, Canada), but I think that's – in part – because I feel more able to “picture” them, as I've never been anywhere where the military is guarding walls or borders with guns and such... though Belfast sounds super-scary, as the violence seems to continue there for no reason. One thing I think I would have liked in the book was maps, so I could “see” where these walls were, exactly. Overall, though, a good, interesting read on a different kind of topic. What does it mean to live against a wall? In an effort to answer this question, Marcello Di Cintio travelled around the globe to meet people living on both sides of walls in places such as the West Bank, the border between India and Bangladesh, the U.S. - Mexico border, and Belfast. A fascinating piece of non-fiction, Di Cintio's book is part travel writing and part exploration of why we build walls, whether the walls ever do what they were intended for, and how individuals living on either side are affected. Di Cintio's voice is compelling, weaving together diverse experiences of individuals from different continents into a single book. While it does feel episodic initially, Di Cintio does sythesize his experiences at different walls (occurring over three years) as the book progresses and ultimately makes the argument that humans might build walls but we also have the ultimate urge to tear them down. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"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."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I also would have liked to see maps, and have just a bit more context or history provided.
This book is very though-provoking: about how walls create an "us" and a "them" and may prevent the devleopment of alternative solutions to conflict; about how seemingly small decisions can change your life (see the story of Teena's wrist tattoos); and even on how invisible walls can affect us.
Definitely worth reading. ( )