Urban Violence

Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere

Andrea Pavoni, Simone Tulumello

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English

Lexington Books
05 September 2023

Violence in society; Urban communities; Crime & criminology; Street & gun crime

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments.

The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).

The second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power?

The third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be framed as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.

By: Andrea Pavoni, Simone Tulumello
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 762g
ISBN: 9781793637307
ISBN 10: 179363730X
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrea Pavoni is assistant research professor at DINAMIA’CET – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Simone Tulumello is assistant research professor in geography at the University of Lisbon.

Reviews for Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere

A breathtaking reworking of violence, in its heterogeneous and specific expressions, as a constitutive force of reified urban fabrics, the materialization of the imaginaries of secure lives, and a fraught modality of contestation over future trajectories.--AbdouMaliq Simone, University of Sheffield This is a hugely impressive and thought-provoking piece of work that constitutes a major intervention on urban violence. Wide-ranging, erudite, and original in scope and nature, it draws on both multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary literatures from across the Global North and South to put forward an innovative theoretical approach re-articulating the genealogical relations between violence, security, and urbanisation, at the heart of which is the novel notion of 'urban atmospheric violence'. This key analytical lens captures the 'turbulent' relationality of the ontological, epistemological, and ethical dimensions of urban violence, and fundamentally challenges the conceptual reductionism of most existing analyses, thereby offering a fresh and stimulating answer to the perennially thorny question of 'what is urban violence?'--Dennis Rodgers, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland