eBook (pdf) Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism - Libcom

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A "Psychogeographical look at the ever increasing encroachment of
militarism and high tech surveillance into urban areas."


"Cities Under Siege comprises three broad, thematic chapters, followed
 by seven extended case studies.

 The first of the thematic chapters looks at how warfare, political
 violence and military and security imaginaries are now re-entering
 cities. This development follows a long period when Western military
 thought was preoccupied with planning globe-straddling nuclear
 exchanges between superpowers or massed tank engagements across rural
 plains. It examines, too, the ways in which the latest military and
 security doctrine is working to colonize the everyday environments of
 modern conurbations.

 Chapter 2 moves on to look at how the various bastions of the
 political right increasingly work to demonize cities as intrinsically
 threatening or problematic places necessitating political violence,
 militarized control, or radical securitization.

 In Chapter 3, I detail the particular characteristics of the new
 military urbanism, and use some of the latest research in the social
 sciences to highlight key features of the deep ening crossover between
 urbanism and militarism.

 The next six case studies address the circuits through which the new
 military urbanism connects urban life in the West to existence on
 colonial frontiers. The first three look at, respectively, the
 proliferation of borders and surveillance systems within the fabric of
 urban life; the US military's ambitions for urban and
 counterinsurgency warfare based on the deployment of armed robots; and
 the connections between entertainment, simulation and US military and
 imperial violence.

 The final three explore the diffusion of Israeli technology and
 doctrine in urban warfare and securitization; the links between urban
 infrastructure and contemporary political violence; and the ways in
 which Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) culture is embedded within a
 geopolitical and political- economic setting that links domestic and
 colonial cities and spaces.


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