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Planned Violence

Name: Planned Violence
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783319913872
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Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture

Autor: Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies

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Editura: Springer International Publishing AG

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This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue...

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Autor

Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2018

Pagini

349

EAN

9783319913872

ISBN

3319913875

Enbook ID

19315898

Editura

Springer International Publishing AG

Greutate

602

Dimensiuni

217 x 180 x 23

Descriere completă

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production. In so doing, it explores new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between urban planning, its often violent effects, and literature. Comparing the spatial pasts and presents of the post-imperial and post/colonial cities of London, Delhi and Johannesburg, but also including case studies of other cities, such as Chicago, Belfast, Jerusalem and Mumbai, Planned Violence investigates how that iconic site of modernity, the colonial city, was imagined by its planners - and how this urban imagination, and the cultural and social interventions that arose in response to it, made violence a part of the everyday social life of its subjects. Throughout, however, the collection also explores the extent to which literary and cultural productions might actively resist infrastructures of planned violence, and imagine alternative ways of inhabiting post/colonial city spaces.