Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism Event
- Time:
- 18:00
- Date:
- 1 February 2012
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre A (Level 2 Westside building), Winchester School of Art, Park Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8DL
For more information regarding this event, please email Dr August Jordan Davis at A.J.Davis@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
THE WINCHESTER CENTRE FOR GLOBAL FUTURES IN ART DESIGN & MEDIA Would like to invite you to our Global Futures Speakers' series for an evening talk by Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle University.
Arguing that the ‘war on terror’ and its descendents have been heavily constituted through highly urban discourses, materialities and practices, this talk seeks to demonstrate that new ideologies of permanent and boundless war are radically intensifying the militarization of urban life in the contemporary period. It delineates the ways in which contemporary processes of militarisation -- which surround what I label the ‘new military urbanism’ -- raise fundamental questions for critical urban scholarship because of the ways in which they work to normalise the permanent targeting of everyday urban sites, circulations, and populations. Focusing primarily on US military security and military doctrine, culture and technology, this talk explores the new military urbanism’s inter-related foundations as a way of identifying ways to challenge its axioms through critical research, activism and art.
This should be a most interesting talk and we hope that you will join us.
Speaker information
Stephen Graham ,Newcastle University ,Professor of Cities and Society