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Recent posts tagged with "nation-state"

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty: Wendy Brown Keynote

25 November 2009, 14:00 - 16:30

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, dozens of walls have been erected between and within nation-states. Why? What are these walls doing--materially, performatively, symbolically? What is their relationship to the erosion of state sovereignty? What is the nature of state and popular investments in them, especially when they don't 'work'?