Cities, War, and Terrorism
Towards an Urban Geopolitics
Studies in Urban and Social Change
1. Auflage Oktober 2004
412 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-1574-2
John Wiley & Sons
Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look
critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and
counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War
period.
* A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war,
terrorism and cities
* Argues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites of
geopolitical conflict
* Written by the world's leading analysts of the
intersections of urban space and military and terrorist
violence
* Draws on cutting-edge research from geography, history,
architecture, planning, sociology, critical theory, politics,
international relations and military studies
* Provides up-to-date empirical analyses of specific conflicts,
including 9/11, the "War on Terrorism", the Balkan
wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and urban antiglobalization
battles
* Offers lay readers a sophisticated perspective on the violence
that is engulfing our increasingly urbanised world
List of Plates.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Introduction: Cities, Warfare, and States of Emergency: Stephen
Graham (University of Durham).
Part I: Cities, War and Terrorism in History and
Theory.
1 Cities as Strategic Sites : Place Annihilation and Urban
Geopolitics: Stephen Graham (University of Durham).
2 The City-as-Target, or Perpetuation and Death: Ryan Bishop and
Gregory Clancey (National University of Singapore; National
University of Singapore).
3 Shadow Architectures : War, Memories, and Berlin's
Futures: Simon Guy (University of Newcastle).
4 Another Anxious Urbanism: Simulating Defence and Disaster in
Cold War America: Matthew Farish (University of Toronto).
5 Living (Occasionally Dying) Together in an Urban World:
Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds and the University of
Warsaw).
6 Everyday Techniques as Extraordinary Threats: Urban
Technostructures and Nonplaces in Terrorist Actions: Timothy W.
Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
Blacksburg, Virginia).
Part II: Urbicide and the Urbanization of Warfare.
7 New Wars of the City : Relationships of 'Urbicide' and
'Genocide': Martin Shaw (University of Sussex).
8 Urbicide in Bosnia: Martin Coward (University of Sussex).
9 Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces and Political
Volumes: Ariel Sharon and The Geometry of Occupation: Eyal Weizmann
(an architect based in Tel Aviv and London).
10 Constructing Urbicide by Bulldozer in the Occupied
Territories: Stephen Graham.
11 City Streets - The War Zones of Globalisation:
Democracy and Military Operations in Urban Terrain in the Early
21st Century: Robert Warren (University of Delaware).
12 Continuity and Discontinuity : The Grammar of Urban Military
Operations : Alice Hills (King's College, London).
Part III: Exposed Cities : Urban Impacts of Terrorism and the
'War on Terror'.
13 Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield: Michael Sorkin
(CCNY).
14 The "War on Terrorism" and Life in Cities after
September 11, 2001: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University in New York
City).
15 Recasting the 'Ring of Steel': Designing Out
Terrorism in the City Of London? Jon Coaffee (University of
Newcastle).
16 Technology vs. 'Terrorism': Circuits of City
Surveillance Since September 11: David Lyon (Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario).
17 Urban Dimensions of the Punishment of Afghanistan by U.S.
Bombs: Marc W. Herold (University of New Hampshire in Durham).
Epilogue: Stephen Graham.
Bibliography.
Index
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Introduction: Cities, Warfare, and States of Emergency: Stephen
Graham (University of Durham).
Part I: Cities, War and Terrorism in History and
Theory.
1 Cities as Strategic Sites : Place Annihilation and Urban
Geopolitics: Stephen Graham (University of Durham).
2 The City-as-Target, or Perpetuation and Death: Ryan Bishop and
Gregory Clancey (National University of Singapore; National
University of Singapore).
3 Shadow Architectures : War, Memories, and Berlin's
Futures: Simon Guy (University of Newcastle).
4 Another Anxious Urbanism: Simulating Defence and Disaster in
Cold War America: Matthew Farish (University of Toronto).
5 Living (Occasionally Dying) Together in an Urban World:
Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds and the University of
Warsaw).
6 Everyday Techniques as Extraordinary Threats: Urban
Technostructures and Nonplaces in Terrorist Actions: Timothy W.
Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
Blacksburg, Virginia).
Part II: Urbicide and the Urbanization of Warfare.
7 New Wars of the City : Relationships of 'Urbicide' and
'Genocide': Martin Shaw (University of Sussex).
8 Urbicide in Bosnia: Martin Coward (University of Sussex).
9 Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces and Political
Volumes: Ariel Sharon and The Geometry of Occupation: Eyal Weizmann
(an architect based in Tel Aviv and London).
10 Constructing Urbicide by Bulldozer in the Occupied
Territories: Stephen Graham.
11 City Streets - The War Zones of Globalisation:
Democracy and Military Operations in Urban Terrain in the Early
21st Century: Robert Warren (University of Delaware).
12 Continuity and Discontinuity : The Grammar of Urban Military
Operations : Alice Hills (King's College, London).
Part III: Exposed Cities : Urban Impacts of Terrorism and the
'War on Terror'.
13 Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield: Michael Sorkin
(CCNY).
14 The "War on Terrorism" and Life in Cities after
September 11, 2001: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University in New York
City).
15 Recasting the 'Ring of Steel': Designing Out
Terrorism in the City Of London? Jon Coaffee (University of
Newcastle).
16 Technology vs. 'Terrorism': Circuits of City
Surveillance Since September 11: David Lyon (Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario).
17 Urban Dimensions of the Punishment of Afghanistan by U.S.
Bombs: Marc W. Herold (University of New Hampshire in Durham).
Epilogue: Stephen Graham.
Bibliography.
Index
"This is a brilliant, disturbing book. Modern cities have often
been seen as places of extraordinary creativity and creative
destruction, but for this very reason they are also often sites of
spectacular military and paramilitary violence. These essays
unsettle so many taken-for-granted ways of thinking about cities.
Their authors crouch and scurry along streets that, for too long,
have seemed opaque to our political and intellectual imaginations.
There is a tremendous power and urgency to their arguments that
should be confronted by anyone concerned at the intimacy of the
connections between cities, war and terrorism." Derek Gregory,
University of British Columbia
"Cities, War and Terrorism is a rare accomplishment. Bringing
together a truly interdisciplinary group of authors, it provides
the first, original investigation of the urbanisation of modern
conflict. In their plural ways and myriad sites, the essays in this
book investigate the changing nature of the contemporary
battlespace and the implosion of distinctions between inside and
outside, civilian and military. Together, they mark the beginning
of a new and vital field of analysis - an urban geopolitics
- that must concern us all." David Campbell, University of
Durham
"Acts of war and terror against cities and their inhabitants
(both anti-state and state sanctioned) are saturating our
contemporary world. Yet urban researchers are in denial of this
starkest of contemporary urban realities. Graham brings together
the renegade thinkers and researchers who are tracking the ways in
which global geopolitics is imploding into the urban world. Cities,
War and Terrorism is a stunningly successful synthesis of the
subtle interpenetration of global geopolitics and the
micro-politics of cities and neighborhoods. It marks the beginning
of a new and crucial research domain: that of urban geopolitics.
This book must, and will, change the way urban researchers and
planners think about and explore city regions. It helps to make
sense of the ways in which the historic functions of cities and
nation states (social welfare, education, health, planning) are
being overwhelmed by the imperative of 'security' and the politics
of fear. Purposely provocative and deeply disturbing." Leonie
Sandercock, University of British Columbia
"Graham's anger at the appropriation of the events of
9/11, simmering beneath the surface of his general introduction,
contributes to a strong sense of editorial passion and involvement.
This volume provides a fascinating, and immensely broad-ranging,
call to understand the complex inter-relationships between
geopolitical forces and those resilient urban lives."
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religion, Volume 7 Issue 4
(December 2006)
been seen as places of extraordinary creativity and creative
destruction, but for this very reason they are also often sites of
spectacular military and paramilitary violence. These essays
unsettle so many taken-for-granted ways of thinking about cities.
Their authors crouch and scurry along streets that, for too long,
have seemed opaque to our political and intellectual imaginations.
There is a tremendous power and urgency to their arguments that
should be confronted by anyone concerned at the intimacy of the
connections between cities, war and terrorism." Derek Gregory,
University of British Columbia
"Cities, War and Terrorism is a rare accomplishment. Bringing
together a truly interdisciplinary group of authors, it provides
the first, original investigation of the urbanisation of modern
conflict. In their plural ways and myriad sites, the essays in this
book investigate the changing nature of the contemporary
battlespace and the implosion of distinctions between inside and
outside, civilian and military. Together, they mark the beginning
of a new and vital field of analysis - an urban geopolitics
- that must concern us all." David Campbell, University of
Durham
"Acts of war and terror against cities and their inhabitants
(both anti-state and state sanctioned) are saturating our
contemporary world. Yet urban researchers are in denial of this
starkest of contemporary urban realities. Graham brings together
the renegade thinkers and researchers who are tracking the ways in
which global geopolitics is imploding into the urban world. Cities,
War and Terrorism is a stunningly successful synthesis of the
subtle interpenetration of global geopolitics and the
micro-politics of cities and neighborhoods. It marks the beginning
of a new and crucial research domain: that of urban geopolitics.
This book must, and will, change the way urban researchers and
planners think about and explore city regions. It helps to make
sense of the ways in which the historic functions of cities and
nation states (social welfare, education, health, planning) are
being overwhelmed by the imperative of 'security' and the politics
of fear. Purposely provocative and deeply disturbing." Leonie
Sandercock, University of British Columbia
"Graham's anger at the appropriation of the events of
9/11, simmering beneath the surface of his general introduction,
contributes to a strong sense of editorial passion and involvement.
This volume provides a fascinating, and immensely broad-ranging,
call to understand the complex inter-relationships between
geopolitical forces and those resilient urban lives."
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religion, Volume 7 Issue 4
(December 2006)
Stephen Graham is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University. Between 1992 and spring 2004 he was based at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. He is the author of Telecommunications and the City (with Simon Marvin, 1996) and Splintering Urbanism (with Simon Marvin, 2001) and editor of The Cybercities Reader (2003), among other publications.
