Globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities
By: Christoph Lindner.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780415482141; 9780203885079
Subjects: City and town life -- Case studies; Cities and towns -- Case studies; Globalization -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Violence -- Case studies; Visual communication -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Social problems -- Case studies; Sociology, Urban -- Case studies; Intellectual life -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization and violence / Christoph Lindner; title: Architecture and economies of violence : São Paulo as case study / Richard J. Williams; title: Drugs and assassins in the city of flows / Geoffrey Kantaris; title: Temporary discomfort : Jules Spinatsch's documentation of global summits / Hugh Campbell; title: American military imaginaries and Iraqi cities : the visual economies of globalizing war / Derek Gregory; title: Globalization and the remembrance of violence : visual culture, space, and time in Berlin / Simon Ward; title: Trash aesthetics : New York, globalization, and garbage / Christoph Lindner; title: Global Beijing : the world is a violent place / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald; title: The poetics of scale in urban photography / Shirley Jordan; title: Globalization and cultural capital : symbolic violence in recent filmic images of Paris / Ruth Cruickshank; title: Conspiracy, surveillance, and the spatial turn in the Bourne trilogy / Sue Harris.