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Planned Violence - Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018) Loot Price: R3,902
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Planned Violence - Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Elleke Boehmer,...

Planned Violence - Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies

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This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production. In so doing, it explores new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between urban planning, its often violent effects, and literature. Comparing the spatial pasts and presents of the post-imperial and post/colonial cities of London, Delhi and Johannesburg, but also including case studies of other cities, such as Chicago, Belfast, Jerusalem and Mumbai, Planned Violence investigates how that iconic site of modernity, the colonial city, was imagined by its planners - and how this urban imagination, and the cultural and social interventions that arose in response to it, made violence a part of the everyday social life of its subjects. Throughout, however, the collection also explores the extent to which literary and cultural productions might actively resist infrastructures of planned violence, and imagine alternative ways of inhabiting post/colonial city spaces.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: December 2018
First published: 2018
Editors: Elleke Boehmer • Dominic Davies
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 349
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-91387-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
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LSN: 3-319-91387-5
Barcode: 9783319913872

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