Violence and Security in the City by Jack Palmer https://padlet.com/JPteaching/violenceandsecurity It used to be the case that the majority of frontline spaces of military conflict were large land territories or oceans located outside of the city. During the Second World War, however, warfare was urbanized and the city itself became a technology for instilling fear and controlling populations. Entire cities such as Dresden and Hiroshima were targets of violence. This lecture will focus on contemporary forms of urban violence and will discuss how ordering policies that aim at national security can generate urban insecurity and disorder. It will focus especially on how these ordering policies are led by nation-states with the aim of securitising urban spaces in relation to global threats and risks. To this end, it will focus on several case studies including: the asymmetric urban conflicts of the war on terror and the war on drugs; “states of emergency” in crisis contexts with reference to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; and the securitisation of global "mega-events" en-us 2015-03-18 11:32:20 UTC 2025-11-19 20:41:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Jack Palmer - Stephen Graham on Hurricane Katrina.  JPteaching https://padlet.com/JPteaching/violenceandsecurity/wish/51648234 Stephen Graham (author of Cities Under Siege) has produced much work on the links between militarism and urban policies around the world. He is particularly illuminating here on Hurricane Katrina which struck New Orleans. August 2015 will see the 10-year anniversary of this event. Far from providing humanitarian relief to those effected by the flooding, what followed Katrina was a 'militarisation' of the situation, aimed at controlling and containing a supposedly hostile inner-city population.

For a brilliant, in-depth analysis of Hurricane Katrina see Spike Lee's four part documentary 'When the Levees Broke'

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