Tear Down These Walls: Decolonial Approaches to Barriers and Liberation - Paperback

by de La Torre Miguel (Editor), Raheb Mitri (Editor)

All too often, justification for building walls (physical or virtual) is advanced by those benefiting from said wall to mask oppressive social, political, and economic structures. Tear Down These Walls is a comparison study on the impact of walls upon colonized people living in occupied lands. We are told that walls must exist to keep out terrorist (as per Israel), punish anti-democratic systems (hence the Cuban embargo), keep out caravans of illegals seeking to freeload off our generosities (as per anti-immigrant U.S. citizens). Seldom do we explore the impact of walls on those constructed as a threat and as an Other.

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RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics

RELIGION / Christian Theology / Liberation

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State

Tear Down These Walls

Miguel A. De La Torre and Mitri Raheb, editors

Ethics and Intersectionality Series

Cover design: Melissa Romano

Cover image: Photographs by Mitri Raheb

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ISBN 978-1-62698-624-4

Author Biography

Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO. Mitri Raheb is the founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Palestine.