This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations.
The book builds on the insight that violence itself is a spatiotemporal practice with generative capacities, which produces and transforms urban space and time in the long turn, also through the impact of memory. The analytical categories of space and time must be thought as inextricably linked with each other . Expanding this fundamental conceptual idea offers fresh perspectives on urban violence. The book unites case studies on different world regions and historical periods , and thus challenges assumed binaries of cities the global North and South, the past and present.
Edited by:
Mara Albrecht,
Alke Jenss
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 433g
ISBN: 9781526195623
ISBN 10: 1526195623
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 20 January 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Foreword Niall Ó Dochartaigh Introduction: Sites of violence, entangled in space and time Mara Albrecht and Alke Jenss Part I Space-time regimes and regulations: Changing forms of urban violence 1 Revolution lost and found: Collective actions, fears, and violently contested space-time regimes in Hamburg and Seattle (c. 1916–20) Klaus Weinhauer 2 From riots to massacres: How space and time changed urban violence in Jerusalem, 1920-29 Roberto Mazza 3 Resisting a hegemonic spatiotemporal order: Hindu nationalist violence and subterranean agency in Ahmedabad Shrey Kapoor Part II Rhythms and spatiotemporal dynamics: Structuring effects on and of practices of urban violence 4 Six temporalities of urban violence: A comparative perspective on El Salvador and Jamaica Hannes Warnecke-Berger 5 Disrupting the rhythms of violence: Anti-port protests in the city of Buenaventura Alke Jenss 6 The urban pulse of violence: Spatiotemporal patterns in the riots in Belfast and Jerusalem during the era of the British Empire Mara Albrecht Part III Memories and (religious) imaginations: Representations of urban violence 7 Beirut’s violence palimpsest: Urban transformations, mnemonic spaces and socio-temporal practices Christine Mady 8 ‘Humiliation Days’ – Remembering, repeating and expecting urban violence in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies Andreas Bolte 9 Counter-mapping the divided city: Topographies of violence and the religious imagination in urban Brazil Christian Laheij Epilogue: Rhythms and space-time of violence in and of the city Jutta Bakonyi -- .
Mara Albrecht is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Alke Jenss is Senior Researcher and Head of the Cluster Contested Governance at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany.
Reviews for The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures
‘Theoretically ambitious and grounded in an eclectic methodological approach, this volume is an outstanding contribution to the burgeoning field of urban studies and of violence. It brings together very successfully space and time as regimes and practices of city life that have structured the spatial experiences, temporalities, rhythms, and memories of urban violence. Adopting a scalar, multidisciplinary and comparative analysis to ‘map’ and ‘clock’ violent cities and societies, the case studies included in the volume reveal the mutually constitutive nature of the space-time axis in different urban settings, today as in the past. This book is an important and innovative read.’ —Nelida Fuccaro, New York University Abu Dhabi. Editor of Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East -- .
