Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel

Reece Jones

7/2012 · Zed Books Ltd.

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*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.

O autorovi

Reece Jones is an associate professor of geography at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and a leading authority on political borders. He has published fifteen research articles in highly ranked journals as well as opinion pieces in newspapers around the world on the role borders play in globalization and the global war on terror. He has won awards for both teaching and writing and was recently elected the Secretary/Treasurer for the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.