Cities of Banal Warfare by Sun?ana Laketa - 9781529250015

Cities of Banal WarfareAffective Geographies in Violent Times\nAuthor(s): Sun?ana Laketa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bristol University Press\nISBN-13: 9781529250015, 978-1529250015\nSynopsis\nAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.\n\nBanal warfare describes the ways in which the vision of the cityridden with conflicts, terrorist attacks and diseaseinfuses everyday urban life, to the point of becoming invisible.\n\nThis book analyzes the impact of framing public emergencies and violences in Paris and Brussels as acts of war and how this normalizes militarism within urban contexts traditionally viewed as non-war zones. It addresses how this process shapes urban governance agendas, constructs the notion of the enemy within, and conditions everyday lives. From lockdowns to states of emergency, the book considers urban citizens agency and resistance, and how to rethink notions of urban peace.