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This course explores urban aspects of international security. As the nexus of authority, governance, capital and culture, cities as arenas of modern warfare. This course engages with approaches from anthropology and political geography to explore the effects of the manifestation of political violence and different types of disasters on cities. As they are prone to terrorist attacks, financial crisis, hurricanes, viruses, heavy rainfalls, the pursuit of human security reconfigure urban security in ambiguous ways. We will reflect on the social construction of security threats, the decentering of the government’s monopoly over the use of force, and the militarization of social and imaginative life. All the sessions include extensive group discussions based on the readings, as well as student presentations on selected topics and case-studies.
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| Literatur |
Besteman C. (2020) https://www.dukeupress.edu/militarized-global-apartheid, Durham: Duke University Press.
Coleman R. and McCahill M. (2011), Surveillance & Crime, London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Graham S. ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Ll9JFS98","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Graham 2011)","plainCitation":"(Graham 2011)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":44,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/3935328/items/F4HRUEDT"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/3935328/items/F4HRUEDT"],"itemData":{"id":44,"type":"book","abstract":"A powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life.Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned and controlled. Graham examines the transformation of Western armies into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces. He looks at the militarization and surveillance of international borders, the use of ‘security’ concerns to suppress democratic dissent, and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism permeates the entire fabric of urban life, from subway and transport networks hardwired with high-tech ‘command and control’ systems to the insidious militarization of a popular culture corrupted by the all-pervasive discourse of ‘terrorism.’","ISBN":"978-1-84467-762-7","language":"en","number-of-pages":"434","publisher":"Verso Books","source":"Google Books","title":"Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism","title-short":"Cities Under Siege","author":[{"family":"Graham","given":"Stephen"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2011",11,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (2010) Cities under siege: The New military urbanism, UK :Verso Books. Zeiderman (2016), Endangered city: the politics of security and risk in Bogotà, Durham: Duke University Press.
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