Tear Down These Walls: Decolonial Approaches to Barriers and Liberation

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626986244
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	09/24/2025
Series:	Ethics and Intersectionality Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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.

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Editorial Reviews

A wonderful collection of essays dealing with the modern militarization of societies from Palestine to Hong Kong, to South Africa and the (de)militarized zone that divides Korea; to Cuba and the O’odham Nation. . . . This book exposes a perspective we will not get from the industrialized press. . . . This is a very important book!” —Tink Tinker, professor emeritus, American Indian Studies, Iliff School of Theology



“An urgent and much-needed volume, as walls—physical, psychological, and spiritual—have been increasingly built to separate communities, races, and nations. . . . Theological depths, astute historical analyses, and resources to combat apartheid, global racism, militarized violence, and external and settler colonialism.” —Kwok Pui-lan, Episcopal Divinity School



“Racialized communities live on the same side of different walls. And our role is to Tear Down These Walls. With intellectual honesty, analytical brilliance, and political courage . . . an impressive array of voices forge new paths toward transnational consciousness. . . . A must read for everyone interested in liberationist projects and decolonial justice.” —Santiago Slabodsky, Florence and Robert Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, Hofstra University, NY

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