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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance
- Publication Date
- 2020-03-31
- ISBN
- 9780231185394
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231185391
ISBN-13
9780231185394
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038267240
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Cities at War : Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance
Subject
Military Science, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Violence in Society, Security (National & International), Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-035766
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Thinking about war is too often trapped by the idea of a 'battlefield'--literally an open space in which social geographies are suspended for the duration of an armed contest. In this innovative volume, Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen fuse the paradigms of 'new war' and 'urban capabilities' to illuminate how urbanization transforms the conduct of war, societal survival during war, and resistance to war., Conflict, armed violence, and military interventions are brutal facts of life in cities throughout the world. While some commentators proclaim that cities can take up governance where states fail, or even that mayors might rule the world, reality is more complex. This book is a crucial guide to the reality of urban insecurity--and urban capabilities to cope with insecurity. Its cases come mainly from less rich countries with more or less manifest wars--but the issues considered matter everywhere., Sobering but with seams of hope, Cities at War brings together a state-of-art collection providing rich analysis of diverse contemporary cities embattled by insecurity, not just as urban theaters of violence or sites of broader conflicts but rather as places of human hankering and ingenious inventiveness and where cities themselves 'talk back.', Urbanization is spreading and conflict in urban areas changes the nature of war. Urbanists, peacekeepers, and military strategists should read this book. There are positive and negative lessons to be learned., Cities at War places important questions about how contemporary wars are affecting cities on the intellectual map via a well-chosen collection of case studies that convey the variety of urban experiences of warfare, violence, and avoidance of violence in the twenty-first century. This effective study offers a rich contribution to the field., Cities at War places important questions about how contemporary wars are affecting cities on the intellectual map via a well-chosen collection of case studies which convey the variety of urban experiences of warfare, violence and avoidance of violence, in the twenty-first century. This effective study offers a rich contribution to the field., Kaldor and Sassen bring a powerful analysis of the urbanization of warfare as a multi-scalar and transnational process. The book will be of particular interest to researchers working on conflict-ridden cities who intend to understand the working of political violence in all its complexity., Sobering but with seams of hope, Cities at War brings together a state-of-the-art collection providing rich analysis of diverse contemporary cities embattled by insecurity, not just as urban theaters of violence or sites of broader conflicts but rather as places of human hankering and ingenious inventiveness and where cities themselves 'talk back.', this book is a highly valuable resource for scholars in the fields of Urban Studies as well as Security, War and Peace Studies. The richness of the empirical material, the individual chapters that speak to each other so well and the insights into patterns of urbanity provide excellent inputs into discussions of power, resistance, inequality and violence.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
355.4/26
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Global Insecurity and Urban Capabilities, by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen 1. Bamako, Mali: Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention, by Ruben Andersson 2. Kabul: Bridging the Gap Between the State and the People, by Florian Weigand 3. Baghdad: War and Insecurity in the City, by Ali Ali 4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Insecurity at the U.S.-Mexico Border, by Mary Martin 5. Responding to, or Perpetuating, Urban Insecurity? Enclave-Making in Karachi, by Sobia Ahmad Kaker 6. Violent Conflict and Urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The City as a Safe Haven, by Karen Büscher 7. Navigating Security in Bogotá, by Johannes Rieken, Efraín García-Sánchez, and Daniel Bear 8. "On the Margins of All Margins": Explaining (In)Security in Novi Pazar, Serbia, by Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic Conclusion: Spaces for Tactical Urbanism, by Saskia Sassen and Mary Kaldor Contributors Index
Synopsis
Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the terrain of battle. In Cities at War , Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. Reflecting Kaldor's expertise on security cultures and Sassen's perspective on cities and their geographies, they develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence. Through a series of case studies of cities including Baghdad, Bogotá, Ciudad Juarez, Kabul, and Karachi, the book reveals the unequal distribution of insecurity as well as how urban capabilities might offer resistance and hope. Through analyses of how contemporary forms of identity, inequality, and segregation interact with the built environment, Cities at War explains why and how political violence has become increasingly urbanized. It also points toward the capacity of the city to shape a different kind of urban subjectivity that can serve as a foundation for a more peaceful and equitable future., Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. They develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence., Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the terrain of battle. In Cities at War , Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. Reflecting Kaldor's expertise on security cultures and Sassen's perspective on cities and their geographies, they develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence. Through a series of case studies of cities including Baghdad, Bogot , Ciudad Juarez, Kabul, and Karachi, the book reveals the unequal distribution of insecurity as well as how urban capabilities might offer resistance and hope. Through analyses of how contemporary forms of identity, inequality, and segregation interact with the built environment, Cities at War explains why and how political violence has become increasingly urbanized. It also points toward the capacity of the city to shape a different kind of urban subjectivity that can serve as a foundation for a more peaceful and equitable future.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.P6B74 2020
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