Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Week 9: Cities and Slums

Mike Davis, Planet of Slums

Stephen Graham, War and The City

Gilles Deleuzes, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”

Luic Waqant “The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian
Metropolis”, International Political Sociology, 2, 2008.


Suggested Film: Elite Squad, Weinstein Company, 2008. Available at Library or Video Americain

This section investigates recent trends in urbanization as containment and the resulting
militarization of police forces as well as the increasing urban training of military forces.
The goal of this section is to demonstrate how changes in the local and seemingly insular
urban environment have global security effects. We will also revisit the question of
structural versus subjective violence.

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