Description
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure - from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries. This synthesis of narrative and theory resurrects neglected episodes of state violence and reveals how the built environment continues to enable it today within a range of cities throughout the world. Examples and discussions pull from colonial pasts and presents, of old strategic settlements turned major modern cities in the United States and elsewhere that link to the physical and legal structures concentrating a populace into neighbourhoods that prep them for a lifetime of conscripted and carceral service to the State.
Author: Rasul A. Mowatt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/30/2021
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780367708948
ISBN10: 0367708949
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Real Estate | General
- Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning
- Architecture | Buildings | Landmarks & Monuments
About the Author
Rasul A. Mowatt, Ph.D., is just a son of Chicago and a subject of empire, while dwelling within notions of statelessness, settler colonial mentality, and anti-capitalism. He also functions in the State as a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University, and soon will be a Department Head in the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University.
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