Cities at War : : Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance / / ed. by Mary Kaldor, Saskia Sassen.
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 consid...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Insecurity and Urban Capabilities -- 1. Bamako, Mali: Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention -- 2. Kabul: Bridging the Gap Between the State and the People -- 3. Baghdad: War and Insecurity in the City -- 4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Insecurity at the U.S.-Mexico Border -- 5. Responding to, or Perpetuating, Urban Insecurity? Enclave-Making in Karachi -- 6. Violent Conflict and Urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The City as a Safe Haven -- 7. Navigating Security in Bogotá -- 8. "On the Margins of All Margins": Explaining (In)Security in Novi Pazar, Serbia -- Conclusion: Spaces for Tactical Urbanism -- Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231546133 9783110710977 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704723 9783110704549 |
DOI: | 10.7312/kald18538 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Mary Kaldor, Saskia Sassen. |