Building Walls, Constructing Identities : Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders

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by Marie-Eve Loiselle

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series The Cultural Lives of Law

ISBN-10 1503640612

ISBN-13 9781503640610

Edition New

Publisher Stanford University Press

Imprint Stanford University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 19th, 2024

Print length 277 Pages

Weight 492 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.90 x 2.30 cms

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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.

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