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Against anthropocentrism: the destruction of the built environment as a distinct form of political violence / Coward, Martin

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2006.

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This article examines the nature of the destruction of built environments. Such destruction should be seen as a distinct form of violence: urbicide. This violence comprises the destruction of shared spatiality which is the condition of possibility of heterogeneous communities. Urbicide, insofar as it is a destruction of heterogeneity in general, is thus a manifestation of a 'politics of exclusion'. However, this account of the destruction of the built environment is not only an insight into a distinct form of political violence. Rather, an account of urbicide also offers a metatheoretical argument regarding the scholarly study of political violence: namely that destruction of built environments contests the anthropocentric frame that usually dominates the study of violence.

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Political Violence ; Urban Destruction ; Urbicide

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Globalization of enclosure: interrogating the geopolitics of empire / Coward, Martin

2005

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2005.

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Globalization ; Geopolitics ; International Relations - Case Studies

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Network-centric violence, critical infrastructure and the urban / Coward, Martin

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2009.

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This article addresses the question of whether contemporary global urbanization is characterized by a distinctive relationship between the city and warfare. In particular, it examines the specific way in which two particular forms of warfare - so-called Al-Qaeda terrorism and US tactics in Iraq - target urban infrastructure. I argue that infrastructure is targeted because it is a constitutive feature of contemporary urban life. Metropolitan life is marked by its constitutive relation to urban infrastructure. The article thus suggests that this targeting of infrastructure provides a lens through which to investigate some of the central questions posed by the contemporary urbanization of security.

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Terrorism ; Security ; Urbanization ; Six Day War ; Critical Infrastructure

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