The geographies of threat and the production of violence : the state and the city between us / Rasul A. Mowatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mowatt, Rasul A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic neighborhoods--United States.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

Urban policy--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Urban policy.

City planning--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, England : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence links the physical and legal structures confining residents to formerly redlined neighborhoods and locking away some of those same residents in prisons.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. The State Between Us: An Introduction

1.1 Palaces for the People

1.2 The World Is Coming to an End

1.3 Don't Bulldoze People!

1.4 "Crime", Disease, and a City for the Elites

1.5 Don't Destroy the Buildings...Preserve the Future!

1.6 Riot, Protest, and Dissent

1.7 A Geography of Threat

1.8 Geographies of Threat, Cities of Violence

1.9 A Conclusion

References

2. The History of the City: The Identification of Populations

2.1 Here There Be Dragons

2.2 White Town, Black Town

2.3 Power Maintenance Through Space

2.4 State Sovereignty via Infrastructure

2.5 Cities in the Seats of Power

2.6 A Second Conclusion

3. The Design of the City: The Identification of Threats

3.1 Architecture or Revolution

3.2 The Production of Space for Domination

3.3 Of Order and Ordinances

3.4 The Laws of the Indies

3.5 Planned, Zoned, and Cleared

3.6 A Third Conclusion

4. The Society of the City: The Identification for Violence

4.1 Traps of Territory, Traps of Structure

4.2 The Instrumental and Complicit Lawfare of Cities

4.3 The Violent Disposability of Cities

4.4 The Condoned Violence of the State-Fabricated Society

4.5 The Public Square, The Park, The Plaza

4.6 The Animation of Public Space by the Forces of Ethno-Nationalism

4.7 The Violence in Cities

4.8 A Fourth Conclusion

5. The City Between Us: A Conclusion

5.1 Schemes and Schemas

5.2 Ideas and Ideologies

5.3 Discursions and Practicalities

5.4 A Final Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-314954-5

1-003-14954-5

1-000-45329-4

9781003149545

OCLC:

1272995682