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<p><P>Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual invocation has long required.<P>&mdash;John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLA<P>Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is uncomfortable but utterly compelling reading. An essential guide to a world splintered and wounded by fear and aggression&mdash;this is geography at its most politically engaged, historically sensitive, and intellectually brave.<P>&mdash;Ben Highmore, University of Sussex<P>This is what a &lsquo;public geography&rsquo; should be all about&#58; acute analysis of momentous issues of our time in an accessible language. Gregory and Pred have assembled a peerless group of critical geographers whose essays alter conventional understandings of terror, violence, and fear. No mere gazetteer, Violent Geographies shows how place, space and landscape are central components of the real and imagined practices that constitute organised violence past and present. If you thought terror, violence, and fear we

Author

Gregory, Derek, Pred, Allan Richard

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415951463

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Social_sciences