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Slow Urbicide: A New Materialist Account of Political Violence in Palestine

Slow Urbicide: A New Materialist Account of Political Violence in Palestine

Hardcover

General SociologyInternational RelationsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0367693119
ISBN13: 9780367693114
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Nov 22 2022
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of aggressive spatial containment and regularization of urbanity employed within the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Building on recent scholarship on slow violence and urbicidal policies, it discusses the different dimensions of the violence against the urban space, as well as exposes the complex material-semiotic character of the urban territory and of its destruction. By referring to the concepts of ethno-territoriality and the right to the city, the book aims to generate an enhanced understanding of problems situated at the overlap of urban studies and investigations of state-sponsored violence, focusing specifically on issues related to urban warfare.

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