
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence
The State and the City Between Us
By: Rasul A Mowatt
Paperback | 30 September 2021
At a Glance
Paperback
RRP $96.99
$75.25
22%OFF
Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days
When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure â" 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.
Industry Reviews
"Covering an exhaustive historical, geographical, and intellectual sweep, The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence traces the genesis of today's most urgent crises to the formation and function of cities. Rasul A. Mowatt makes a compelling case for geographers, urban planners, interdisciplinary scholars, and social activists to consider physical spaces and social structures in their scholarly analyses and abolitionist praxes." -Lynell L. Thomas, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston and author, Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory
"From vulnerable bodies, to city control, to the power of the state, Mowatt's prescient book carefully excavates spatial violence in the ways the state maps, classifies, and identifies those deemed disposable. Then, using both lawfare and warfare, it punishes them through, and in city structures, streets, and public spaces." -Julian Agyeman, Professor, Tufts University and author, Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World
"The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence is an action bubble POW! Mowatt departs from the juxtaposition of scales in a photo to argue, across three cycles and through a diverse source base (maps, images, urban planning documents, songs, and poems), that states use urban space to throttle the energies and lives that would otherwise emerge. The book's power derives from a globe-trotting analysis of white colonial settler states that is also rich in detail." -Marissa Moorman, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison and author, Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1933-2002
"Rasul Mowatt's ambitious, wide-ranging The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence focuses contemporary political attention on the specificities of cities as sites of governance, repression, and protest. Mowatt ruminates on the ways urban space plots limit points for ethnic consciousness and state control, juxtaposing events and places rarely thought together to reveal surprising truths. With rage and vision and in a language all his own, Mowatt paints his impressionistic landscapes, offering an immersive reading experience that is both hard-hitting and deeply personal, not only powerful but vulnerable, and lyrical as well as historical. This is truly an unusual book." -Micol Seigel, Professor, Indiana University and author, Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police
"This is truly the book for our times: our haunted twenty-first century, reminded as we are by ghosts of past injustice. Mowatt's outstanding monograph will become essential reading for anyone interested in the critical debate about cities, violence and race, gender and class in the United States and beyond." -Karl Spracklen, Professor, Leeds Beckett University, co-author, Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure
ISBN: 9780367708948
ISBN-10: 0367708949
Published: 30th September 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 294
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 25.5 x 18 x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.62
Shipping
Standard Shipping | Express Shipping | |
---|---|---|
Metro postcodes: | $9.99 | $14.95 |
Regional postcodes: | $9.99 | $14.95 |
Rural postcodes: | $9.99 | $14.95 |
How to return your order
At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.
Additional postage charges may be applicable.
Defective items
If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.
For more info please visit our Help Centre.