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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... areas of urban regeneration/governance and militarized urban landscapes. He undertook his doctoral research on the relationship between terrorist risk, insurance, and changes to urban landscapes. This was published in book form as ...
... areas of urban regeneration/governance and militarized urban landscapes. He undertook his doctoral research on the relationship between terrorist risk, insurance, and changes to urban landscapes. This was published in book form as ...
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... areas of sociology of technology, sociology of religion, and social theory. Among his most recent books are Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (2001), Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, and Digital Discrimination ...
... areas of sociology of technology, sociology of religion, and social theory. Among his most recent books are Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (2001), Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, and Digital Discrimination ...
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... areas and, finally, to instantaneous annihilation of entire urban spaces and populations'' (Shaw, 2003: 131). Right up to the start of the twenty-first century, then, the capture of strategic and politically important cities remains ...
... areas and, finally, to instantaneous annihilation of entire urban spaces and populations'' (Shaw, 2003: 131). Right up to the start of the twenty-first century, then, the capture of strategic and politically important cities remains ...
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... areas are now the ''lightning conductors'' for the world's political violence. Warfare, like everything else, is being urbanized. The great geopolitical contests of cultural change, ethnic conflict, and diasporic social mixing; of ...
... areas are now the ''lightning conductors'' for the world's political violence. Warfare, like everything else, is being urbanized. The great geopolitical contests of cultural change, ethnic conflict, and diasporic social mixing; of ...
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... areas. In the case of Iraq, this has happened despite the fact there was not a shred of evidence to link Saddam Hussein's regime to Al-Qaeda. Far from being routes to simple ''regime change'' and peaceful reconstruction, however, these ...
... areas. In the case of Iraq, this has happened despite the fact there was not a shred of evidence to link Saddam Hussein's regime to Al-Qaeda. Far from being routes to simple ''regime change'' and peaceful reconstruction, however, these ...
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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