Cities, War And Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
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Choice Magazine
Summing Up: Recommended. Most levels/Libraries. - G.J. Martin, emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University
Book Description
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. The book brings together new writing by the world's leading analysts of urban space and military and terrorist violence from the fields of geography, architecture, planning, sociology, critical theory, politics, international relations, and military studies. Arguing that urban spaces are now the critical, strategic sites of geopolitical struggle, the contributors combine cutting-edge theoretical reflections with path-breaking empirical case studies. They provide up-to-date analyses of a range of specific urban sites, including those involved in the Cold War, the Balkan wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 9/11 attacks, the "War on Terror" attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, and urban anti-globalization battles.Taken as a whole, the book offers both specialist and non-specialist readers a sophisticated perspective on the violence that is engulfing our increasingly urbanized world.
Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Studies in Urban and Social Change),Stephen Graham,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,1405115750,Cities and towns,Human Geography,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Sociology - Urban,Terrorism,Urban warfare,Social Science / Sociology / Urban,Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle,Urban communities,Warfare & Defence
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