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Slow Urbicide

A New Materialist Account of Political Violence in Palestine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of aggressive spatial containment and regularization of urbanity employed within the conflict in Palestine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780367693114
• ISBN-10: 0367693119
• Artikelnr.: 64656974

Autorenporträt

Dorota Goläska is Associate Professor (Cultural Studies and Religion) at the Department of Cultural Research, University of Lodz, Poland. She has degrees in Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and International Studies. Her research interests include feminist approaches to political violence and studies of collective memory, especially in relation to traumatic experiences and their representation in culture. She also works on such issues as creative strategies of resistance as well as intersections of memory, art, and activism. In her work she uses philosophical and methodological approaches related to new materialism and posthumanism. Since January 2021 she has served as a Principal Investigator in the project Political Dimension of Violence Against Cities: Urbicide in Palestine-A Case Study, funded by the National Science Centre in Poland under grant number UMO-2020/37/B/HS5/00837.