Cities of Banal Warfare

Affective Geographies in Violent Times
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5001-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 145 g

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

“Banal warfare” describes the ways in which the vision of the city—ridden with conflicts, terrorist attacks and disease—infuses everyday urban life, to the point of becoming invisible.

This book analyzes the impact of framing public emergencies and violences in Paris and Brussels as acts of war and how this normalizes militarism within urban contexts traditionally viewed as “non-war zones”. It addresses how this process shapes urban governance agendas, constructs the notion of the “enemy within,” and conditions everyday lives. From lockdowns to states of emergency, the book considers urban citizens’ agency and resistance, and how to rethink notions of urban peace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laketa, Sun&

Laketa, Suncana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: War Spills Over

1. Reversing the Gaze, Rethinking Urban Conflict

2. Urban Warfare: From State of Emergency to Lockdown

3. Everyday Urban Landscapes as Battlescapes

4. Affective Atmospheres "On the Frontline"

5. Affective Unsettling of Urban Warfare

Conclusion: The Urbicidal Geographies of Cities of Banal Warfare

Über Autor(innen)

Suncana Laketa is an urban geographer and social psychologist engaged in research on social exclusion in European cities.