Book review: why walls won’t work: repairing the US-Mexico divide

Feghali, Zalfa (2013) Book review: why walls won’t work: repairing the US-Mexico divide. LSE Review of Books (16 Oct 2013). Website.

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Today, when one thinks of the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is a mutually unwelcoming zone, with violent, poverty-ridden towns on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. In Why Walls Won’t Work, Michael Dear explains why this view is problematic and false. Those interested in one way that the discipline of border studies has developed to account for the post 9/11 context will find this book interesting and instructive; Dear’s focus on the physicality of the border Wall itself is most convincing, writes Zalfa Feghali.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2013 15:15
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 13:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54887

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