Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centres of the West, Stephen Graham’s new book Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates through the sites, spaces, infrastructures and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.
Cities under siege: the new military urbanism
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Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University, and previously taught at Durham and MIT, among other universities. His books include Cities, War and Terrorism, The Cybercities Reader, and (with Simon Marvin)Splintering Urbanism.
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics, an Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at University College London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies.
Fran Tonkiss
Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology, and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban development and design, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006). She is currently managing editor of Economy and Society; she was previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology, and remains a member of the editorial board.