Wall Disease
Book description
A groundbreaking investigation into the hidden mental health effects of border walls, revealing the harm they bring to all who live near them.
Today, there are at least seventy border walls: from the US-Mexico border to the seventeen thousand miles of barbed wire that wall off Bangladesh from India, as…
Why read it?
1 author picked Wall Disease as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
We know a lot about the hot-button issues surrounding borders – family separations, deportation, smuggling – but borders also have wildly underestimated psychological effects on individuals. Wapner impressively synthesizes data and research collected on the effects of border barriers from some of the most volatile regions in the world including India and Pakistan, Mexico and the U.S., and both sides of the peace lines of Northern Ireland. The mental health issues caused by militarized borders are alarming and almost entirely unrecognized in today’s world; Wapner brings these shocking and revelatory dynamics to light.
From D.W.'s list on understanding borders in a globalized world.
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