The spatiality and temporality of urban violence

Mara Albrecht, Alke Jenss, Mara Albrecht, Alke Jenss

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781526165732
• eBook ISBN: 9781526165725
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Violence in Society
• Index: Social Sciences

This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that violence itself is a spatiotemporal practice with generative capacities, which produces and transforms urban space and time in the long turn, also through the impact of memory. The analytical categories of space and time must be thought as inextricably linked with each other. Expanding this fundamental conceptual idea offers fresh perspectives on urban violence. The book unites case studies on different world regions and historical periods, and thus challenges assumed binaries of cities the global North and South, the past and present.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Sites of violence, entangled in space and time – Mara Albrecht and Alke Jenss
• Part I Space-time regimes and regulations: Changing forms of urban violence
• Part II Rhythms and spatiotemporal dynamics: Structuring effects on and of practices of urban violence
• Part III Memories and (religious) imaginations: Representations of urban violence
• Epilogue: Rhythms and space-time of violence in and of the city – Jutta Bakonyi
• Index