CITIES UNDER SIEGE: THE NEW MILITARY URBANISM
Book ID/图书代码： 13850010B35207
English Summary/英文概要： Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates through the sites, spaces, infrastructures and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.
Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western and Israeli militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a real or imagined conflict zone inhabited by lurking, shadow enemies, and urban inhabitants as targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned, controlled and targeted. He examines the transformation of Western militaries into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces, the militarization and surveillance of March international borders, the labelling as “terrorist” of democratic dissent and Politics/Geography protests, and the enacting of legislation suspending “normal” civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism now permeates the entire fabric of our urban lives, from subway and transport systems hardwired with high-tech “command and control” systems and the infection of civilian policy with all-pervasive “security” discourses; to the pervasive militarization of popular culture.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本作强有力地揭示出，当今的政治暴力如何利用都市的场所空间以及基础设施，日渐渗透进并作用于人们的日常生活当中。因为在全球城市化进程加剧的如今，我们所处的都市本书早已沦为了一个新兴的战场。
从南半球破旧不堪的贫民窟到西方世界繁华富有的金融中心,透过大量的研究分析，作者斯蒂芬.格拉汉姆指出，现如今对于以色列和西方世界的军事安全部门而言，城区本身早已代表了一种潜在或假想的冲突地点，其中潜伏着众多隐匿危险的敌人；而生活于都市当中的普通居民，也沦为了他们持续监控跟踪的目标。
西方常规军事力量正向着城市反恐防暴的方向进行着转型；对于民主制度持有不同政见的人们，纷纷被套上了”恐怖份子”的帽子；而一系列国家立法的出台更是令得普通的民法形同废纸；地铁及运输设施布满了先进的监控系统，甚至连民生政策及大众文化也不可避免的遭到了侵蚀；于这种形势之下，军事向城市生活的渗透，已渐渐蔓延到了人们生活的方方面面…(AW)
Awards/获奖情况："A brilliant, disturbing book."---Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia.
"The first, original investigation of the urbanisation of modern conflict."---David Campbell, University of Durham.
"Splintering Urbanism is the first analytical geography of the network society. It is required reading for students of spatial transformation, on the cutting edge of research in urban studies." ---Manuel Castells, Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg.
"An enormously important book."---Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics
About the Author/作者介绍： Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University, and previously taught at Durham and MIT, among other universities. His books include Cities, War and Terrorism, the Cybercities Reader, and (with Simon Marvin) Splintering Urbanism. He writes for such publication as New Left Review, the Guardian, and New Statesman.
本书作者斯蒂芬.格拉汉姆，现为纽卡斯尔大学城市及社会学教授，早年于杜伦大学、麻省理工学院等众多名校任教。他的著作还包括有《城市，战争及恐怖主义》（Cities, War and Terrorism），《数码都市的读者》（Cybercities Reader）以及同Simon Marvin共同编写的《城市化的瓦解》（Splintering Urbanism）。同时，他还为《卫报》、《新政治家》等知名刊物撰稿。
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