Spatial Violence

Herausgeber: Herscher, Andrew; Siddiqi, Anooradha

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book poses "spatial violence" as a means to explore histories of and through architecture at sites across the world. Regarding space and violence as co-constitutive, the bookâ s collected 3 essays critique modernization and capitalist accumulation as naturalized modes for the extraction of violence from everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780367028787
• ISBN-10: 0367028786
• Artikelnr.: 56924829

Autorenporträt

Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA with appointments in the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, Department of Art History, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She writes and teaches in the history and theory of art, architecture, and urbanism, focusing on modern Africa and South Asia, spatial practice across borders, and aesthetics and politics of heritage and emergency.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Spatial Violence 2. On "Revolutionary Vandalism" 3. Architecture During
Wartime: The Mostra d'Oltremare and Esposizione Universale di Roma 4.
Sentenced: Architecture of Solitary Confinement 5. The Economy of Fear:
Oscar Newman Launches Crime Prevention through Urban Design (1969 - 197x)
6. New Belgrade After 1999: Spatial Violence as De-Socialisation,
De-Romanisation, and De-Historisation 7. Mud, Dust, and Marouge¿:
Precarious Construction in a Congolese Refugee Camp 8. Encampments: Spatial
Taxonomies of Sri Lanka's Civil War