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Urban Violence
Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere
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2023
Summary
Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments.
The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
The second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power?
The third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be framed as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3730-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3731-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
422
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Acknowledgements No access
1. Violence No access
2. Urban No access
3. Security No access
4. Imaginary No access
5. Urbanisation No access
6. Atmosphere No access
7. Comfort No access
8. Smartness No access
9. Cum cura No access
References No access Pages 351 - 408
Index of Names and Places No access Pages 409 - 420
