Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban GeopoliticsStephen Graham John Wiley & Sons, 15 de abr. de 2008 - 416 páginas Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period.
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... Western rhetoric of a ''clash of civilizations'' (Huntingdon, 1993), or Al-Qaeda's assertion of the need for ''pure,'' ''Islamic'' transnational spaces and states, are only two among many of such incendiary propositions. ''Cracking Down ...
... Western rhetoric of a ''clash of civilizations'' (Huntingdon, 1993), or Al-Qaeda's assertion of the need for ''pure,'' ''Islamic'' transnational spaces and states, are only two among many of such incendiary propositions. ''Cracking Down ...
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... Western cities (Klaidman et al., 2002). ''Terrorism experts'' warn ''of the 'Islamic threat' in the American underclass, and alerting the public that the ghetto and the prison system could well supply a 'fifth column' to Osama bin Laden ...
... Western cities (Klaidman et al., 2002). ''Terrorism experts'' warn ''of the 'Islamic threat' in the American underclass, and alerting the public that the ghetto and the prison system could well supply a 'fifth column' to Osama bin Laden ...
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... Western Muslim communities being ''under siege on all sides'' has emerged even though both US and British Muslim communities have overwhelmingly expressed their collective revulsion at the 9/11 attacks (Bright, 2003, Howell and Shryock ...
... Western Muslim communities being ''under siege on all sides'' has emerged even though both US and British Muslim communities have overwhelmingly expressed their collective revulsion at the 9/11 attacks (Bright, 2003, Howell and Shryock ...
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... Western cities to face a palpable militarization previously more common in cities of the global South. Tanks protect airports. Troops guard rail stations. Surface-to-air missiles sit around office blocks housing meetings of ...
... Western cities to face a palpable militarization previously more common in cities of the global South. Tanks protect airports. Troops guard rail stations. Surface-to-air missiles sit around office blocks housing meetings of ...
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... [Western nation-states] desire to prevent? (Aaronovitch, 2003: 27) War is the new psychotropic. War precludes our doubts. War preserves our right to pursue overabundance. War closes the circle. It creates anxiety; it cures anxiety. It ...
... [Western nation-states] desire to prevent? (Aaronovitch, 2003: 27) War is the new psychotropic. War precludes our doubts. War preserves our right to pursue overabundance. War closes the circle. It creates anxiety; it cures anxiety. It ...
Conteúdo
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TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS Part I Cities War and Terrorism in History and Theory | 27 |
TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS Part II Urbicide and the Urbanization of Warfare | 137 |
TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS Part III Exposed Cities Urban Impacts of Terrorism and the War on Terror | 247 |
TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS Epilogue | 330 |
TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS Bibliography | 335 |
TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS Index | 371 |
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