Cities at War : : Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Ali, Ali,
Andersson, Ruben,
Bear, Daniel,
Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna,
Büscher, Karen,
García-Sánchez, Efraín,
Kaker, Sobia Ahmad,
Kaldor, Mary,
Martin, Mary,
Rieken, Johannes,
Sassen, Saskia,
Weigand, Florian,
HerausgeberIn:
Kaldor, Mary,
Sassen, Saskia,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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