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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... contemporary world. Yet urban researchers are in denial of this starkest of contemporary urban realities. Graham brings together the renegade thinkers and researchers who are tracking the ways in which global geopolitics is imploding ...
... contemporary world. Yet urban researchers are in denial of this starkest of contemporary urban realities. Graham brings together the renegade thinkers and researchers who are tracking the ways in which global geopolitics is imploding ...
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... Contemporary and Future Perspectives John Eade and Christopher Mele (eds.) The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform John R. Logan (ed.) Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context Mark Shiel and Tony ...
... Contemporary and Future Perspectives John Eade and Christopher Mele (eds.) The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform John R. Logan (ed.) Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context Mark Shiel and Tony ...
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... contemporary urban life. (Schneider and Susser, 2003: 1) Baghdad burns in real time. The global population accelerates towards the seven billion mark. Protestors rally in the streets – from Karachi to Sa ̃o Paulo to Lagos. The Third ...
... contemporary urban life. (Schneider and Susser, 2003: 1) Baghdad burns in real time. The global population accelerates towards the seven billion mark. Protestors rally in the streets – from Karachi to Sa ̃o Paulo to Lagos. The Third ...
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... contemporary cities (Sassen, 2002b). As a result, war, ''terrorism,'' and cities are redefining each other in complex, but poorly explored, ways. Such redefinitions are, in turn, bound up with deeper shifts in the ways in which time ...
... contemporary cities (Sassen, 2002b). As a result, war, ''terrorism,'' and cities are redefining each other in complex, but poorly explored, ways. Such redefinitions are, in turn, bound up with deeper shifts in the ways in which time ...
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... (Appadurai, 1996: 152–3) Contemporary cities are the battlegrounds on which global powers and. To Appadurai, these new urban wars thus represent little less than: Dialectics of Place Attachment: The City as Site and Symbol. Introduction 7.
... (Appadurai, 1996: 152–3) Contemporary cities are the battlegrounds on which global powers and. To Appadurai, these new urban wars thus represent little less than: Dialectics of Place Attachment: The City as Site and Symbol. Introduction 7.
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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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