Violent Geographies (eBook, PDF)

Fear, Terror, and Political Violence
Redaktion: Gregory, Derek; Pred, Allan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a perceptive collection of essays that explores the complexity of political violence across the globe, they explore the historical pasts of places and regions to understand the turmoil of political violence that permeates the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135929060
• Artikelnr.: 39909782

Autorenporträt

Derek Gregory is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He taught for many years at Cambridge before moving to UBC, and is the author of numerous books: Ideology, Science, and Human Geography (1978); Regional Transformations and IndustrialRevolution (1982); Geographical Imaginations (1994); TheColonial Present (Blackwell, 2004); and the forthcomingDancing on the Pyramids (U of Minnesota Press, 2005). He is also co-editor of all four editions of the Dictionaryof Human Geography (Blackwell) and is currently the co-editor of the journal Society and Space . Allan Pred is Professor of Geography at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of a very large number of books, with two published by Harvard, one by Cambridge, one by Minnesota, one by California, and one by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Bare Life, Political Violence and the Territorial
Structure of Britain and Ireland 3. 'An Unrecognizable Condition Has
Arrived': Law, Violence and the State of Exception in Turkey 4.
Cosmopolitanism's Collateral Damage: The State-Organzied Racial Violence of
World War I and the War on Terror 5. Refuge or Refusal: The Geography of
Exclusion 6. Imperialism Imposed and Invited: The "War on Terror" Comes To
Southeast Asia 7. 'Spaces of Terror and Fear on Colombia's Pacific Coast:
The Armed Conflict and Forced Displacement Among Black Communities 8. Fatal
Transactions, Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti)Terrorist Consumer 9. The
Geography of Hindu Right-Wing Violence in India 10. Revolutionary Islam: A
Geography Of Modern Terror 11. Vanishing Points: Law, Violence and
Exception in the Global War Prison 12. Groom Lake and the Imperial
Production of Nowhere 13. Targeting the Inner Landscape 14. Immaculate
Warfare? The Spatial Politics of Extreme Violence 15. 'The Pentagon's
Imperial Cartography: Tabloid Realism and the War on Terror 16.
Demodernizing By Design: Everyday Infrastructure and Political Violence 17.
The Terror City Hypothesis 18. Banal Terrorism: Spatial Fetishism and
Everyday Insecurity 19. Situated Ignorance and State Terrorism: Silences,
W.M.D., Collective Amnesia and the Manufacture of Fear