Derek Gregory and Allan Pred's "Violent Geographies" gathers together a group of young and well established geographers to look at how territory and space delimit and shape both terrorism and political violence in wide range of places, from the Middle East to Latin America. In short, the book shows how physical violence, especially terrorism, disrupts the distinction between the global and the local by injecting transnational politics into the intimacies of everyday life." Violent Geographies" also shows how terrorism is not simply used by nonstate groups --states use it as well, including…mehr
Derek Gregory and Allan Pred's "Violent Geographies" gathers together a group of young and well established geographers to look at how territory and space delimit and shape both terrorism and political violence in wide range of places, from the Middle East to Latin America. In short, the book shows how physical violence, especially terrorism, disrupts the distinction between the global and the local by injecting transnational politics into the intimacies of everyday life." Violent Geographies" also shows how terrorism is not simply used by nonstate groups --states use it as well, including many of America's allies. It goes far beyond 9/11 moving backward in history and across the globe to other locales to get at the heightened states of emergency that are occurring everywhere.
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
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
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