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Wall Disease (Paperback)
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Wall Disease (Paperback)
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Loot Price R309
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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 well as the five-layer
fence between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Border walls protect us, the
argument goes, because they keep danger out. But what if the walls
themselves endanger everyone who lives near them - on both sides?
In this thoroughly reported, eye opening work, science journalist
Jessica Wapner reveals the unforeseen mental health effects of
security walls - including depression and anxiety, despondence,
excitability, suicidal ideation, paranoia, and more. Doctors first
noticed these conditions proliferating among people who lived along
the Berlin Wall, and they gave the overarching affliction a name:
wall disease. Wapner builds on this research, following the trail
of psychological harm around the world today. Weaving together
interviews with those living up against walls and expert
testimonies from psychologists, economists, geographers, and other
specialists, Wapner explores the growing epidemic of wall disease -
and illuminates how neither those "outside" nor "inside" are
immune.
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