Fronteres

Against the backdrop of crisis of the traditional structures of the nation-state and the emergence of new cultural imaginations, the geopolitical and symbolic boundaries become dislocated and the global, multicultural city is born where the border ceases to be a place of transit and becomes a place of coexistence and conflict: each place can be the threshold between ourselves and the other. Which borders persist and which new ones are emerging?

 

Authors: Roger Bartra, Manuel Cruz, Francisco Fernández Buey, Daniel Gamper, Zygmunt Bauman, Dominique Schnapper, David S. Landes, Georges Corm, Michel Foucher, Tzvetan Todorov, Judit Carrera, Josep Ramoneda, Eyal Weizman

Related to Barcelona debate 2004 - Borders