Graham Cities, War, and Terrorism

Towards an Urban Geopolitics
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75302-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to lookcritically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism andcounter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-Warperiod.
* A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war,terrorism and cities
* Argues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites ofgeopolitical conflict
* Written by the world's leading analysts of theintersections of urban space and military and terroristviolence
* Draws on cutting-edge research from geography, history,architecture, planning, sociology, critical theory, politics,international relations and military studies
* Provides up-to-date empirical analyses of specific conflicts,including 9/11, the "War on Terrorism", the Balkanwars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and urban antiglobalizationbattles
* Offers lay readers a sophisticated perspective on the violencethat is engulfing our increasingly urbanised world

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Introduction: Cities, Warfare, and States of Emergency: StephenGraham (University of Durham).
Part I: Cities, War and Terrorism in History andTheory.
1 Cities as Strategic Sites : Place Annihilation and UrbanGeopolitics: Stephen Graham (University of Durham).
2 The City-as-Target, or Perpetuation and Death: Ryan Bishop andGregory Clancey (National University of Singapore; NationalUniversity of Singapore).
3 Shadow Architectures : War, Memories, and Berlin'sFutures: Simon Guy (University of Newcastle).
4 Another Anxious Urbanism: Simulating Defence and Disaster inCold War America: Matthew Farish (University of Toronto).
5 Living (Occasionally Dying) Together in an Urban World:Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds and the University ofWarsaw).
6 Everyday Techniques as Extraordinary Threats: UrbanTechnostructures and Nonplaces in Terrorist Actions: Timothy W.Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University inBlacksburg, Virginia).
Part II: Urbicide and the Urbanization of Warfare.
7 New Wars of the City : Relationships of 'Urbicide' and'Genocide': Martin Shaw (University of Sussex).
8 Urbicide in Bosnia: Martin Coward (University of Sussex).
9 Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces and PoliticalVolumes: Ariel Sharon and The Geometry of Occupation: Eyal Weizmann(an architect based in Tel Aviv and London).
10 Constructing Urbicide by Bulldozer in the OccupiedTerritories: Stephen Graham.
11 City Streets - The War Zones of Globalisation:Democracy and Military Operations in Urban Terrain in the Early21st Century: Robert Warren (University of Delaware).
12 Continuity and Discontinuity : The Grammar of Urban MilitaryOperations : Alice Hills (King's College, London).
Part III: Exposed Cities : Urban Impacts of Terrorism and the'War on Terror'.
13 Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield: Michael Sorkin(CCNY).
14 The "War on Terrorism" and Life in Cities afterSeptember 11, 2001: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University in New YorkCity).
15 Recasting the 'Ring of Steel': Designing OutTerrorism in the City Of London? Jon Coaffee (University ofNewcastle).
16 Technology vs. 'Terrorism': Circuits of CitySurveillance Since September 11: David Lyon (Queen'sUniversity, Kingston, Ontario).
17 Urban Dimensions of the Punishment of Afghanistan by U.S.Bombs: Marc W. Herold (University of New Hampshire in Durham).
Epilogue: Stephen Graham.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Graham is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University. Between 1992 and spring 2004 he was based at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. He is the author of Telecommunications and the City (with Simon Marvin, 1996) and Splintering Urbanism (with Simon Marvin, 2001) and editor of The Cybercities Reader (2003), among other publications.