Introduction: Cities, Warfare, and States of Emergency

Abstract

This chapter contains section titled: The Mutuality of War and the City “Security” and the Urbanization of War Warfare Re-Enters the City: The Parallel “Rescaling” of Urbanism and Political Violence The “Implosion of Global and National Politics into the Urban World” Dialectics of Place Attachment: The City as Site and Symbol for Violent Struggle “Cracking Down on Diaspora”: The “Domestic Front” in the “War on Terror” Fear, Insecurity, and the Militarization of Urban Life Urban Dimensions of the “State of Emergency” “AWelcome Blanket of Geopolitical Disguise” Capsularization vs. “Crisis Conviviality” The Collective Terror of Banal Events Cities as Refuge From High-Tech US Hegemony “Terrorism” and the “War on Terror”: Negotiating Bias, Ideology, and Language Towards an Urban Geopolitics: Introducing Introduction

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