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

[Steve Kinney]

Thanks, looking forward to reading this. "My kind of fun," as they say.

:o)



On 03/04/2017 11:46 PM, Razer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> https://libcom.org/library/cities-under-siege-new-urban-militarism-stephen-graham
> 
> Direct link, PDF, 7.3Mb:
> https://libcom.org/files/Graham,%20Stephen%20-%20Cities%20Under%20Siege.%20The%20New%20Military%20Urbanism_0.pdf
>