Violent Geographies
Fear, Terror, and Political Violence
Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual invocation has long required.-John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLAUrgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is uncomfortable but utterly compelling reading. An essential guide to a world splintered and wounded by fear and aggression-this is geography at its most politically engaged, historically sensitive, and intellectually brave.-Ben Highmore, University of SussexThis is what…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Pred, Allan (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-135-92906-0
- EAN: 9781135929060
- Produktnummer: 16953892
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'248 KB
- Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 13 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Derek Gregory is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He taught for many years at Cambridge before moving to UBC, and is the author of numerous books: Ideology, Science, and Human Geography (1978); Regional Transformations and Industrial Revolution (1982); Geographical Imaginations (1994); The Colonial Present (Blackwell, 2004); and the forthcoming Dancing on the Pyramids (U of Minnesota Press, 2005). He is also co-editor of all four editions of the Dictionary of Human Geography (Blackwell) and is currently the co-editor of the journal Society and Space.Allan Pred is Professor of Geography at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of a very large number of books, with two published by Harvard, one by Cambridge, one by Minnesota, one by California, and one by Routledge.
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