Urban Violence
About this issue
Summary
This issue, edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy, explores the theme of Urban Violence and the different forms it can take, whether it be physical acts of struggle or contestation and other disorderly activities, or the constrictions that the design of urban spaces can intentionally enforce or even unintentionally create.
This issue explores the myriad of forms that ‘urban violence’ can take, from social injustices to wilful destruction of heritage sites, from displacement of people from their homes to urban warfare. The contributors here are from very varied backgrounds – anthropology, sociology, geography, architecture, psychiatry and public health – and their papers encompass a broad geographical range; a diversity that illustrates the extent to which urban violence transcends disciplinary and geographical boundaries.
Contents
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Urban Violence
Yasser Elsheshtawy -
The Violence of Structural Violence: Ethical Commitments and an Exceptional Day in a Brazilian Favela
Moises Lino E Silva -
Destruction in Progress: Revolution, Repression and War in Syria (2011 Onwards)
Leïla Vignal -
‘Sniper Alley’: The Politics of Urban Violence in the Besieged Sarajevo
Mirjana Ristic -
Urban Redevelopment Trauma: The Story of a Dubai Neighbourhood
Khaled Alawadi -
Modernist Planning and the Foundations of Urban Violence in Latin America
Diane E. Davis -
Violence of Urbanization, Poor Neighbourhoods and Large-Scale Projects: Lessons from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Yves Pedrazzini, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin and Alexandra Thorer -
Urban Transformations: The Great Cairo Fire and the Founding of a Modern Capital, 1952–1970
Yasser Elsheshtawy -
Acts of Neighbouring: Socially-Engaged Urban Investment and Youth Violence Prevention
Lourdes J. Rodgrïguez, Arlene Peguero, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Arelis De La O, Howard Joseph and Robert E. Fullilove - Publication Review
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