Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Interventions
The Urbanisation of War
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Interventions
ISBN: 978-0-415-46130-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of urban destruction. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence. In this sense it is productive to see this phenomenon as ‘urbicide’, or the destruction of urbanity. The book proposes that the destruction of urbanity comprises a pattern that is aimed at the destruction of the shared spaces that are constituted by buildings. These shared spaces are precisely what fosters heterogeneous communities. The author argues that the destruction of heterogeneous communities is a strategy deployed by exclusionary regimes (such as ethnic nationalist forces in the former Yugoslavia) in order to create homogeneous communities. Understanding the dynamics of such violence is vital if we are to grasp precisely what is at stake in widespread and
deliberate violence against the built environment.
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Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
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Introduction: The Destruction of Shared Space 1. Interpreting Destruction of the Built Environment 2. Urbicide 3. The Built Environment and the Constitution of Shared Spatiality 4. The Nature of Heterogeneity 5. The Philosophico-Political Stakes of Urbicide. Conclusion: The Contemporary Assault on Urbanity
