1. Introduction 2. Bare Life, Political Violence and the Territorial Structure of Britain and Ireland 3. ‘An Unrecognizable Condition Has Arrived’: Law, Violence and the State of Exception in Turkey 4. Cosmopolitanism’s Collateral Damage: The State-Organzied Racial Violence of World War I and the War on Terror 5. Refuge or Refusal: The Geography of Exclusion 6. Imperialism Imposed and Invited: The "War on Terror" Comes To Southeast Asia 7. ‘Spaces of Terror and Fear on Colombia’s Pacific Coast: The Armed Conflict and Forced Displacement Among Black Communities 8. Fatal Transactions, Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti)Terrorist Consumer 9. The Geography of Hindu Right-Wing Violence in India 10. Revolutionary Islam: A Geography Of Modern Terror 11. Vanishing Points: Law, Violence and Exception in the Global War Prison 12. Groom Lake and the Imperial Production of Nowhere 13. Targeting the Inner Landscape 14. Immaculate Warfare? The Spatial Politics of Extreme Violence 15. ‘The Pentagon’s Imperial Cartography: Tabloid Realism and the War on Terror 16. Demodernizing By Design: Everyday Infrastructure and Political Violence 17. The Terror City Hypothesis 18. Banal Terrorism: Spatial Fetishism and Everyday Insecurity 19. Situated Ignorance and State Terrorism: Silences, W.M.D., Collective Amnesia and the Manufacture of Fear
Derek Gregory is Professor of Geography at the
University of British Columbia. He taught for many years at
Cambridge before moving to UBC, and is the author of numerous
books: Ideology, Science, and Human Geography(1978); Regional
Transformations and IndustrialRevolution (1982); Geographical
Imaginations (1994); TheColonial Present (Blackwell, 2004); and the
forthcomingDancing on the Pyramids (U of Minnesota Press, 2005). He
is also co-editor of all four editions of the Dictionaryof Human
Geography (Blackwell) and is currently the co-editor of the journal
Society and Space.
Allan Pred is Professor of Geography at the
University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of a very large
number of books, with two published by Harvard, one by Cambridge,
one by Minnesota, one by California, and one by Routledge.
"Violent Geographies is...a much needed volume that focuses on the many forms and victims of terrorism and defines terror (whether perpetuated by states or nonstate actors) as a form of calculated political action with defined goals. In demonstrating the ability and desire of geographers to analyze and critique contemporary political violence, this book is most effective and a vital contribution." -- Colin Flint, Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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