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008			110520s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a2009053279
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020			_a9781935408086
050	0	0	_aJC327 _b.B75 2010
082	0	0	_a320.1 BRO
100	1		_aBrown, Wendy _d, 1955-
245	1	0	_aWalled states, waning sovereignty _c/ Wendy Brown
260			_aNew York _b: Zone Books ; _aCambridge, Mass. _b: Distributed by the MIT Press _c, 2010.
300			_a167 p. _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline, Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy and the popular desires that incite the contemporary building of walls. The new walls - dividing Texas from Mexico, Israel from Palestine, South Africa from Zimbabwe - consecrate the broken boundaries they would seem to contest and signify the ungovernability of a range of forces unleashed by globalization. Yet these same walls often amount to little more than theatrical props, frequently breached, and blur the distinction between law and lawlessness that they are intended to represent. But if today's walls fail to resolve the conflicts between globalization and national identity, they nonetheless project a stark image of sovereign power. Walls, Brown argues, address human desires for containment and protection in a world increasingly without these provisions. Walls respond to the wish for horizons even as horizons are vanquished.
650		0	_aGlobalization
650		0	_aBorder security
942			_cMO
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