Terrorism, Risk and The Global City
Towards Urban Resilience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6310474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Githens‐mazer (University of Exeter, corresponding author), J Githens-Mazer |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 896-898 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pa/gsr030 |
| OpenAlex | W2313272852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
As someone who is not in the field of urban planning and development I embarked on reviewing this book with some real trepidation. What benefit might there be in reading a thorough examination of planning issues in contemporary cities? What could this tell me about issues of security and territoriality—ideas of risk and securitisation? This sense of trepidation was acutely misplaced. The book, a thorough and detailed account of planning and development in contemporary cities provides important and stimulating avenues for larger questions facing those who are interested in understanding aspects of terrorism, risk and the very nature of how societies ingest and reflect discourses of terrorist threat in the 21st century. The book is full of empirical data, visual representations and analysis of important details of cases such as the Belfast ‘ring of steel’ and the City of London. It examines practical measures of protecting ‘soft targets’ and unpacks how planners practically address what are understood to be real and meaningful terrorist threats. Yet the strength of the book lies in its simultaneous analysis of the nature of these threats themselves. It shows how securitised territoriality creates a context in which cities become something more than a place to live, work and play—but are reified as symbols of the societies they dominate. In this way, those who are responsible for security and risk in cities face multiple pushes and pulls as they consider what measures most effectively protect these entities from threat, yet continue to allow them to be enjoyed and ‘lived
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Face (sociological concept · Political economy · Political science · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Social science · Sociology · Territoriality · Terrorism · Disaster Management and Resilience · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |