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SUMMARY:Walled States\, Waning Sovereignty - Professor Wendy Brown\, Unive
 rsity of California\, Berkeley
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:Why the current proliferation of nation-state walls\, especial
 ly amidst widespread proclamations of global connectedness and anticipatio
 n of a world without borders?  And why barricades built of concrete\, stee
 l and barbed wire when threats to the nation today are so often miniaturiz
 ed\, vaporous\, clandestine\, dispersed or networked?  Why walls now and h
 ow are they to be understood?   This project considers the recent spate of
  wall building through the problematic of eroded nation-state sovereignty.
   As walls permit infiltration by much of what they formally interdict\, c
 onfound the distinction between law and lawlessness represented by the nat
 ion state\, and both highlight and exacerbate tensions between global flow
 s and national anxieties\, walls  project an imago of sovereign power that
  the nation-state cannot sustain.  And as they consecrate the boundary cor
 ruption they overtly contest\, they signify the ungovernability by law of 
 a range of forces unleashed by globalization. 
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ
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