Building Walls, Constructing Identities

Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders

Marie-Eve Loiselle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-4061-0 (ISBN)

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States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures. Much has been said about the US-Mexico border wall in the last few decades, yet American walling projects have a much longer history, dating back almost a century. Building Walls, Constructing Identities offers a rich account of this legal history, informed by two episodes of wall-building—the Act of August 19, 1935, and the Secure Fence Act of 2006. These two legislative periods illustrate that today's wall imprints onto the landscape a grammar of racial inequality underpinned by a settler colonial rationality. Marie-Eve Loiselle argues in favor of an account of the law that considers its material translation into space and identifies discursive processes by which the law and the wall come together to communicate legal knowledge about territory and identity.

Marie-Eve Loiselle is a Lecturer at Macquarie Law School.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Lives of Law
Zusatzinfo	25 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-4061-2 / 1503640612
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-4061-0 / 9781503640610
Zustand	Neuware