Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies, eds. Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture

As a category holding analytical value for understanding contemporary transformations, the urban is as fascinating as it remains elusive. Despite its consistent mobilisation by the social and human sciences since the early twentieth century, the specific ways in which it captures the large-scale tr...

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Hlavní autor: Pignon, Tatiana
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 2024
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:As a category holding analytical value for understanding contemporary transformations, the urban is as fascinating as it remains elusive. Despite its consistent mobilisation by the social and human sciences since the early twentieth century, the specific ways in which it captures the large-scale trends that structure our world are still far from clear. Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies’ excellent volume, Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (2018), pro...