The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence : Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures / edited by Mara Albrecht and Alke Jenss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albrecht, Mara, editor.

Jenss, Alke, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal perspective. It discusses how the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban can produce and shape violence, and how practices as well as memories of violence transform spatialities and temporalities of cities.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction: Sites of violence, entangled in space and time

Part I Space-time regimes and regulations: Changing forms of urban violence

Revolution lost and found: Collective actions, fears and violently contested space-time regimes in Hamburg and Seattle (c. 1916-20)

From riots to massacres: How space and time changed urban violence in Jerusalem, 1920-29

Resisting a hegemonic spatiotemporal order: Hindu nationalist violence and subterranean agency in Ahmedabad

Part II Rhythms and spatiotemporal dynamics: Structuring effects on and of practices of urban violence

Temporalities of urban violence: A comparative perspective on El Salvador and Jamaica

Disrupting the rhythms of violence: Anti-port protests in the city of Buenaventura*

The urban pulse of violence: Spatiotemporal patterns in the riots in Belfast and Jerusalem during the era of the British Empire

Part III Memories and (religious) imaginations: Representations of urban violence

Beirut's violence palimpsest: Urban transformations, mnemonic spaces and socio-temporal practices

'Humiliation Days': Remembering, repeating and expecting urban violence in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies

Counter-mapping the divided city: Topographies of violence and the religious imagination in urban Brazil

Epilogue: Rhythms and space-time of violence in and of the city.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526165725

1526165724

9781526165749

1526165740

OCLC:

1409181757