43 | BORDER STORIES | ADITI JOSHI
The border does not fit perfectly to the natural landscape.
Borders may change place but leave their mark on the built environment.
TOPOLOGY OF THE LAND river tweed only sometimes the border (Scotland-England) ‘debatable lands’ (Scotland-England) walls that cut through nature (Mexico-US) creation of nature reserve (Korean)
PALIMPSEST Hadrian’s Wall (Scottish-England) bridges along the Tweed (Scottish-England) end of peace lines but continued segregation (Belfast) history of the korean war (Korean)
There is careful creation of aesthetics of border structures and signs.
There is (re)playing/(re)telling/(re)living of important border stories and actions.
Peripherality of border regions leads to under-performance.
The imagined place of the border often does not fit the reality.
SPECTACLE border structures on walks (Scotland-England) walls as places for mural/art for power (Belfast) peace/dark tourism around walls (Belfast) aesthetics of Trump’s wall (Mexico-US) ‘build the wall’ rhetoric (Mexico-US) jsa zone (Korean) tourism (Korean)
SECURING CAPITAL under-performance of border region (Scottish-England) walls only exist in more ‘deprived’ areas (Belfast) smuggling economy large in border region (Mexico-US) ‘saving’ of capitalism (Korean)
RITUAL border rides (Scottish-England) border ballads (Scottish-England) 12th of July (Belfast)
IMAGINED GEOGRAPHY forgetting of Northumberland (Scotland-England) use of Hadrian’s Wall for border (Scotland-England) border structure not at real border (Mexico-US) 38th parallel (Korean)