目次

List of figures;  Notes on contributors;  Preface;  Introduction: on the political anthropology of walling (Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Bența and Joan Davison);  Part I: Theorising walling: processes of transformation in history;  1. Walling Europe: the perverted linear transformation (Agnes Horvath);  2. The meaning and meaninglessness of building walls (Arpad Szakolczai);  3. Oppressive walling: Babel and the inverted order of the world (Marius Ion Bența);  Part II Contemporary examples for transformations through walling;  4. Walling as encystation: a socio-historical inquiry (Glenn Bowman);  5. Border-crossing and walling states in humanitarian work in Kolkata (Egor Novikov);  6. Liminality and belonging: the life and the afterlives of the Berlin Wall (Harald Wydra);  7.The Great Wall of China does not exist (Erik Ringmar);  8. Breaching Fortress Europe: the liminal consequences of the Greek migrant crisis (Manussos Marangudakis);  9. Imaginary walls and the paradox of strength (Arvydas Grišinas);  10. Identities frozen, societies betrayed, communities divided: the US–Mexican Wall (Joan Davison);  Conclusion (Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Bența and Joan Davison);  Index