Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

Taylor & Francis

Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of CitiesAuthor(s): Christoph Lindner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138975293, 978-1138975293\nSynopsis\nWhat connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in So Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture extending from art and architecture to film and digital media responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such questions, this book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities. \n\nViolence in both material and cultural forms has been a prominent and endemic feature of urban life in the global metropolitan era. Focusing on visual culture and offering a strong humanities perspective that is currently lacking in existing scholarship, this book seeks to understand how the violent effects of.