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Titre(s) : Cities at war [Texte imprimé] : global insecurity and urban resistance / Mary Kaldor, Saskia Sassen, editors
Publication : New York, NY : Columbia University press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (vi-250 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kaldor, Mary (1946-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sassen, Saskia. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Guerre urbaine -- Pays en développement
Agglomérations urbaines -- Rôle stratégique -- Pays en développement
Sociologie urbaine
Genre ou forme : Études de cas
Indice(s) Dewey :
355.426 (23e éd.) = Tactiques militaires dans les villes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231185387. - ISBN 0231185383. - ISBN 9780231185394. - ISBN 0231185391. -
ISBN 9780231546133 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466183369
Notice n° :
FRBNF46618336
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Table des matières : Introduction : Global insecurity and urban capabilities / Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen
; Bamako, Mali : Danger and the divided geography of international intervention /
Ruben Andersson ; Kabul : Bridging the gap between the state and the people / Florian
Weigand ; Baghdad : War and insecurity in the city / Ali Ali ; A tale of two cities
: Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, and insecurity at the US-Mexican Border / Mary Martin ;
Responding to, or perpetuating urban insecurity? Enclave making in Karachi / Sobia
Ahmad Kaker ; Violent conflict and urbanization in Eastern D.R. Congo : The city
as a safe haven / Karen Büscher ; Navigating security in Bogotá / Johannes Rieken,
Efraín García-Sánchez, and Daniel Bear ; "On the margins of all margins" : Explaining
(in)security in Novi Pazar, Serbia / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic ; Conclusion : Spaces
for tactical urbanism / Saskia Sassen and Mary Kaldor
