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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... group of authors, it provides the first, original investigation of the urbanization of modern conflict. In their plural ways and myriad sites, the essays in this book investigate the changing nature of the contemporary battlespace and ...
... group of authors, it provides the first, original investigation of the urbanization of modern conflict. In their plural ways and myriad sites, the essays in this book investigate the changing nature of the contemporary battlespace and ...
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... groups; the militarization of gangs, drug cartels, militia, corrupt political regimes, and law enforcement agencies; the failure of many national and local states; the urbanization of populations and terrain; the growing accessibility ...
... groups; the militarization of gangs, drug cartels, militia, corrupt political regimes, and law enforcement agencies; the failure of many national and local states; the urbanization of populations and terrain; the growing accessibility ...
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... groups holds no place within umma, the transnational fundamentalist Islamic space that these movements are struggling to establish (Castells, 2004: 111). Thus, it is notable that cities that have long sustained complex heterogeneities ...
... groups holds no place within umma, the transnational fundamentalist Islamic space that these movements are struggling to establish (Castells, 2004: 111). Thus, it is notable that cities that have long sustained complex heterogeneities ...
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... groups are being ''stretched'' across the resurgent ''them and us'' or ''home and foreign'' binaries that are being imposed. Many people, spaces, and communities in Western cities are thus becoming '''othered' simply because they are ...
... groups are being ''stretched'' across the resurgent ''them and us'' or ''home and foreign'' binaries that are being imposed. Many people, spaces, and communities in Western cities are thus becoming '''othered' simply because they are ...
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... groups and neighborhoods is being added to the long-standing demonization of other ethnic minorities in many Western cities (see Soja, 2000). The similarities with earlier xenophobic discourses of urban fear, risk, and disorder are ...
... groups and neighborhoods is being added to the long-standing demonization of other ethnic minorities in many Western cities (see Soja, 2000). The similarities with earlier xenophobic discourses of urban fear, risk, and disorder are ...
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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