1st Edition

Urbicide The Politics of Urban Destruction

By Martin Coward Copyright 2009
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The term ‘urbicide’ became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on urban development in America, urbicide captures the sense that the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings is a distinct form of violence. Using Martin Heidegger’s notion of space and Jean-Luc Nancy’s idea... Read more

Introduction  1. Interpreting Destruction Of The Built Environment  2. The Logic Of Urbicide  3. The Built Environment And Shared Spatiality  4. The Nature Of Heterogeneity: From Mitsein To The Inoperative Community  5. The Political Stakes Of Urbicide  6. The Conceptual Stakes Of Urbicide  Conclusion

Biography

Martin Coward is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK.  His research focuses on the nexus of identity, violence and territory.  Currently, he is investigating the manner in which this nexus is exhibited in the contemporary relationship between city and war.