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Contents
Acknowledgements 11
CHAPTER 1
Introduction 15
Standing on the shoreline 15
The materiality of the Iron Curtain 16
Studying the Iron Curtain 17
Recording the Iron Curtain 26
Case studies 28
CHAPTER 2
A physical metaphor 31
The changing rhetoric around a wall 35
“…love walks lonely by the Berlin wall…” 38
The image of the Berlin Wall today 42
CHAPTER 3
The materiality of the Berlin Wall 45
Methods and aims 45
Background 46
On the edge of the western world 46
The material 50
Berlin today 50
The ‘enemy facing’ wall 56
Crossing over 60
Memorials and Museums 63
Back to nothing 65
CHAPTER 4
Case study 1: The Italian/Slovenian border 67
Methods and aims 68
Background 69
The town on the hill 69
Between the wars 73
WWII and new borders 73
One city becomes two 76
A border in constant change 78