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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Despite the weight of the subject matter—urban crime in a violent city—Security in the Bubble goes against the grain of critical scholarship, evoking a new language to capture the fine-grained and culturally attuned spatial practices of identity. As a consequence, novel insights and experiences reveal contemporary urbanity in all its contradictory fullness. This is vital and beautifully crafted urbanism."—Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town
"Christine Hentschel’s theoretically sharp book shows how the pursuit of security dynamically organizes—and simultaneously fragments—urban life. In a major contribution to criminology as well as to urban studies, Hentschel acknowledges the reality of violence and fear but, refreshingly, avoids dystopian clichés in a work that is as relevant for Chicago and Detroit as it is for Rio and Bogotá."—Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spatial Governance from Death to Life
1. The Politics of Crime and Space in South Africa
2. Seeing Like a City: Conceptual Devices
3. Handsome Space: Governing through Flirting
4. Instant Space: Governing through Fleeing
Conclusion: Making Love to the City
Notes
Index
