TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali,Ali
AU  - Andersson,Ruben
AU  - Bear,Daniel
AU  - Bojicic-Dzelilovic,Vesna
AU  - Büscher,Karen
AU  - García-Sánchez,Efraín
AU  - Kaker,Sobia Ahmad
AU  - Kaldor,Mary
AU  - Martin,Mary
AU  - Rieken,Johannes
AU  - Sassen,Saskia
AU  - Weigand,Florian
TI  - Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance 
SN  - 9780231185387
AV  - U167.5.S7 K35 2020
U1  - 355.4/26 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Human security
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Internal security
KW  - Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
KW  - Metropolitan areas
KW  - Strategic aspects
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Urban violence
KW  - Urban warfare
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Global Insecurity and Urban Capabilities --; 1. Bamako, Mali: Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention --; 2. Kabul: Bridging the Gap Between the State and the People --; 3. Baghdad: War and Insecurity in the City --; 4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Insecurity at the U.S.-Mexico Border --; 5. Responding to, or Perpetuating, Urban Insecurity? Enclave-Making in Karachi --; 6. Violent Conflict and Urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The City as a Safe Haven --; 7. Navigating Security in Bogotá --; 8. "On the Margins of All Margins": Explaining (In)Security in Novi Pazar, Serbia --; Conclusion: Spaces for Tactical Urbanism --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the terrain of battle.In Cities at War, Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. Reflecting Kaldor's expertise on security cultures and Sassen's perspective on cities and their geographies, they develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence. Through a series of case studies of cities including Baghdad, Bogotá, Ciudad Juarez, Kabul, and Karachi, the book reveals the unequal distribution of insecurity as well as how urban capabilities might offer resistance and hope. Through analyses of how contemporary forms of identity, inequality, and segregation interact with the built environment, Cities at War explains why and how political violence has become increasingly urbanized. It also points toward the capacity of the city to shape a different kind of urban subjectivity that can serve as a foundation for a more peaceful and equitable future
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/kald18538
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231546133
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231546133/original
ER  -