Brinda Mehta shares her concerns about border walls' impact around the world.

A presentation on the politics of walls and borders to show how these concrete barriers have fractured the city of Baghdad, as shown in contemporary Iraqi poetry. This presentation focuses on the ways in which borders both define and delimit the identity of subaltern "Others." It then demonstrates how literature provides a counter-occupation resistance narrative to reclaim identity and subjectivity.

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Read about Brinda Mehta's lecture on Islamic Commentary:
http://islamicommentary.org/2013/03/brinda-mehta-walling-baghdad-from-dissent-to-dissidence/

Видео Brinda Mehta shares her concerns about border walls' impact around the world. канала John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University