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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... 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 and his ilk'' (Aidi, 2002: 36). I would ...
... 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 and his ilk'' (Aidi, 2002: 36). I would ...
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... terrorist'' crime (Barnett and Bright, 2003; Muir, 2003). This sense of Western Muslim communities being ''under siege on all sides'' has emerged even though both US and British Muslim communities have overwhelmingly expressed their ...
... terrorist'' crime (Barnett and Bright, 2003; Muir, 2003). This sense of Western Muslim communities being ''under siege on all sides'' has emerged even though both US and British Muslim communities have overwhelmingly expressed their ...
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... terrorism.'' It legitimizes the use of massive, overwhelming, and often indiscriminate state violence against them and the fragile systems that sustain the lives of the people who live there (Gregory, 2003). This results in ''a wild ...
... terrorism.'' It legitimizes the use of massive, overwhelming, and often indiscriminate state violence against them and the fragile systems that sustain the lives of the people who live there (Gregory, 2003). This results in ''a wild ...
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... terrorism and counter-terrorism are umbilically connected. In the end, they tend, tragically, to be self-perpetuating. As Zulaika argues: The ultimate catastrophe is that such a categorically ill-defined, perpetually deferred, simple ...
... terrorism and counter-terrorism are umbilically connected. In the end, they tend, tragically, to be self-perpetuating. As Zulaika argues: The ultimate catastrophe is that such a categorically ill-defined, perpetually deferred, simple ...
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... terrorists'' (Sorkin, this volume). The banal sites and events of everyday urban life – especially parked vans, mobility systems, envelopes with white powder, people with packages – are now sources of mass anxiety. As with the Cold War ...
... terrorists'' (Sorkin, this volume). The banal sites and events of everyday urban life – especially parked vans, mobility systems, envelopes with white powder, people with packages – are now sources of mass anxiety. As with the Cold War ...
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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