Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction By Martin Coward

Coward, Martin

doi:10.1080/23269995.2010.10707868

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“…The materiality of the urban environment is not then simply an instrumental backdrop, but something that establishes community understood as 'the experience of fundamental heterogeneity that is an existential condition of all being' and therefore worthy of violent military targeting in its own right. 64 More recently Coward has developed his treatment of contemporary urban politics via an explicit engagement with Bennett's work on the vibrancy of matter. 65 He draws on the idea of the city as a complex ecology to discuss how global urbanisation poses a direct challenge to the way contemporary citizenship is usually imagined.…”

Section: The New Materialisms Turnmentioning

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New Materialisms, discourse analysis, and International Relations: a radical intertextual approach

Lundborg¹,

Vaughan‐Williams²

2014

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article investigates the recent ‘New Materialisms’ turn in social and political thought and asks what the potential theoretical and methodological significance might be for the study of International Relations (IR). To do so we return to debates about the theoretical status of discourse in IR as it is in this context that the question of materiality – particularly as it relates to language – has featured prominently in recent years. While the concept of discourse is increasingly narrow in IR, the ‘New Materialisms’ literature emphasises the political force of materiality beyond language and representation. However, a move to reprioritise the politics of materiality over that of language and representation is equally problematic since it perpetuates rather than challenges the notion of a prior distinction between language and materiality. In response, we draw on earlier poststructural thought in order to displace this dichotomy and articulate an extended understanding of what analysing ‘discourse’ might mean in the study of IR.

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Section: The New Materialisms Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Materialisms, discourse analysis, and International Relations: a radical intertextual approach

Lundborg¹,

Vaughan‐Williams²

2014

Rev. Int. Stud.

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“…Whilst for the Chicago School theorists writing in the 1920s and 1930s, community was understood as antithetical to life in the city, more recently, sociologists, political and urban theorists have been keen to suggest that the city offers another model for thinking community (Closs Stephens, 2007Coward, 2009;Keith, 2005): as a 'difference machine (Isin, 2002); as a form of 'throwntogetherness' (Massey, 2005); as a site where we can think being together without the compulsion to be the same (Sennett, 1971;Young, 1990); as productive of an 'ethics of indifference' (Tonkiss, 2005); or as 'coming urban communities' which cannot entirely be fixed in space (Amin and Thrift, 2002).…”

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Politics through a Web: Citizenship and Community Unbound

Stephens

Squire

2012

Environ Plan D

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“…Place is security. But because of this significance, symbolic places are targeted for attack and destruction (see also Coward 2009). Sites are not randomly selected for attack.…”

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Securing through the failure to secure? The ambiguity of resilience at the bombsite

Heath-Kelly

2015

Security Dialogue

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Resilience discourses resignify uncertainty and insecurity as the means to attain security. Security failure is resignified as productive and becomes part of the story about security learning and improvements in anticipatory capability. In this article, I explore questions of failure mediation and ‘securing through insecurity’. If resilience policies suggest that failure and insecurity can be mediated and redeployed in the cause of success, what becomes of visceral sites of security failure such as the terrorist bombsite? This article focuses on a site where security agencies failed to prevent the bombing of a packed nightclub in Bali, in order to explore ambiguity of failure in the resilience era. It considers the efforts of politicians and activists to perform the site as resilient, and the spatial and temporal excess which eludes this performance. The article contributes to critical literatures on resilience by showing, through the ambiguities of resilience at the bombsite, that resilience is a chimera with regards to its supposed incorporation of insecurity.

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Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction By Martin Coward

Cited by 50 publications

References 1 publication

New Materialisms, discourse analysis, and International Relations: a radical intertextual approach

New Materialisms, discourse analysis, and International Relations: a radical intertextual approach

Politics through a Web: Citizenship and Community Unbound

Securing through the failure to secure? The ambiguity of resilience at the bombsite

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