The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence
The State and the City Between Us
Abstract
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure – from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries. This synthesis of narrative and theory resurrects neglected episodes of state violence and reveals how the built environment continues to enable it today within a range of cities throughout the world. Examples and discussions pull from colonial pasts and presents, of old strategic settlements turned major modern cities in the United States and elsewhere that link to the physical and legal structures concentrating a populace into neighbourhoods that prep them for a lifetime of conscripted and carceral service to the State.
Keywords
Spatial injustice;Redlining;Restrictive covenants;Police violence;Urban planning;City planning;Kenosha;Portland;Parks;Public space;Mass incarceration;Spatial justice;Black Lives Matter;Racism and built environment;Racism and zoning;Racism and planning;Violence work;Urban sociology;Urban history;Urban studies;Baltimore;Philadelphia;W.E. DuBois;Settler Colonial Cities;City Councils;Ciudad De;Captive Maternal;Principal Winds;Photo Credit;White NationalistsDOI
10.1201/9781003149545ISBN
9781003149545, 9781000453294, 9780367708948, 9780367711542, 9781000453270Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2021Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Social, group or collective psychology
Organizational theory and behaviour
Public administration
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