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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... population accelerates towards the seven billion mark. Protestors rally in the streets – from Karachi to Sa ̃o Paulo to Lagos. The Third World is ravaged by an incurable epidemic. Information is constant. Distance is negligible. Sprawl ...
... population accelerates towards the seven billion mark. Protestors rally in the streets – from Karachi to Sa ̃o Paulo to Lagos. The Third World is ravaged by an incurable epidemic. Information is constant. Distance is negligible. Sprawl ...
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... populations'' (Shaw, 2003: 131). Right up to the start of the twenty-first century, then, the capture of strategic and politically important cities remains ''the ultimate symbol of conquest and national survival'' (Shaw, 2001: 1). In ...
... populations'' (Shaw, 2003: 131). Right up to the start of the twenty-first century, then, the capture of strategic and politically important cities remains ''the ultimate symbol of conquest and national survival'' (Shaw, 2001: 1). In ...
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... populations and terrain; the growing accessibility of heavy weapons; a crisis of increasing social polarization at all geographical scales; and the growing scarcity of many essential resources (see Turton, 2002; Castells, 1997, 1998) ...
... populations and terrain; the growing accessibility of heavy weapons; a crisis of increasing social polarization at all geographical scales; and the growing scarcity of many essential resources (see Turton, 2002; Castells, 1997, 1998) ...
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... population grew by 36 percent. By 2003, 900 million people lived in slums. The increasing polarization of cities ... populations (which stood at a global figure of 50 million by 2002) (see Agier, 2002; Diken and Laustsen, 2003). Such ...
... population grew by 36 percent. By 2003, 900 million people lived in slums. The increasing polarization of cities ... populations (which stood at a global figure of 50 million by 2002) (see Agier, 2002; Diken and Laustsen, 2003). Such ...
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... populations. (Bollens, 2001: 170) Appadurai helps us understand why contemporary warfare and terror now largely boil down to contests over the spaces, symbols, meanings, support systems, or power structures of cities and urban places ...
... populations. (Bollens, 2001: 170) Appadurai helps us understand why contemporary warfare and terror now largely boil down to contests over the spaces, symbols, meanings, support systems, or power structures of cities and urban places ...
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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