The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence

The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence is an edited volume that explores how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and rhythms, produces and shapes violence. This examination considers both the built environment and particular 'urban' social relations.

The book builds on the insight that violence itself is a spatiotemporal practice with generative capacities, which produces and transforms urban space and time in the long term, also through the impact of memory. The analytical categories of space and time must be thought as inextricably linked with each other. Expanding this fundamental conceptual idea offers fresh perspectives on urban violence.

The book unites case studies on different world regions and historical periods, challenging assumed binaries of cities in the global North and South, and the past and present.