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