Globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities

Publication Data

• Title Globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities
• Contributor Christoph Lindner
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location London
• Language English

Contents

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

Topics

• 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

Globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities. ISBN 9780203885079. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.