{"product_id":"urban-violence-security-imaginary-atmosphere-9781793637307","title":"Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be framed as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Foundations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Security\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Intersections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Imaginary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Urbanisation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Extensions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Comfort\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Smartness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Cum cura \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042672771415,"sku":"9781793637307","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-violence-security-imaginary-atmosphere-9781793637307","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}