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Synopsis
Placing peripheralised people at its centre, this edited collection unpacks how urban violence must be understood from multiple points of view: powerholders, decision makers, law enforcers, built environment professionals, creative artists, and particularly from the lived standpoint of less empowered communities. It illustrates how listening to often unheard voices of the excluded, disproportionately experiencing daily precarity and violence, can inform and broaden our shared understanding of urban violence. Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities presents a comprehensive and revealing picture of how urban violence manifests and operates in multiple and unprecedented ways, challenging the common conception of urban violence solely as criminal physical acts performed by predictable perpetrators. This volume blurs geographical borders through an equitable and representative synthesis of Global South and North interpretations, focusing on a range of marginalised communities. The chapters are inventively crafted as local-meets-global case studies, with a broad regional sweep from Brazil, US, UK and Ukraine to India, South Africa and Palestine. This is mirrored in the volume?s multidisciplinary diversity of topical themes including migration and politics, policing, law and order, built environment/architecture, film, media and performing arts.
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About the Authors
Ashvin Devasundaram is Reader in Global Cinemas at Queen Mary University of London. He has established a new research area on new independent Indian cinema. His research covers gender/caste-based violence, urban space, cultural heritage, geopolitics, soft power and subaltern identities. He is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project ‘Connecting Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage’ (2024-27).
Stamatis Zografos is an architect and Associate Professor in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is co-founder of Incandescent Square and a founding member of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture (iPSA). His research lies at the intersection of architecture, critical heritage studies and psychoanalysis.
Márcio J. S. Mattos is Professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Brasília. He holds a PhD in Sociology and was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research focuses on policing, police culture, and public policy evaluation.
Zoe Holman is an Australian journalist and writer, based between London and Athens.
Zoe Holman is an Australian journalist and author, based between London and Athens. She has a History PhD on British foreign policy in the Middle East from University of Melbourne/SOAS and is the author of 'Where the Water Ends: seeking refuge in fortress Europe'. She is a Creative Writing PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London.
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