Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

Christoph Lindner is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Amsterdam and Research Affiliate at the University of London Institute in Paris. His recent book publications include Revisioning 007 (2009), Urban Space and Cityscapes (2006), and Fictions of Commodity Culture (2003).

• Foreword (Nezar AlSayyad) 1. Globalization and Violence (Christoph Lindner) PART 1 – Fear 2. Architecture and Economies of Violence: São Paulo as Case Study (Richard J. Williams) 3. Drugs and Assassins in the City of Flows (Geoffrey Kantaris) 4. Temporary Discomfort: Jules Spinatsch’s Documentation of Global Summits (Hugh Campbell) 5. American Military Imaginaries and Iraqi Cities: The Visual Economies of Globalizing War (Derek Gregory) PART 2 – Memory 6. Globalization and the Remembrance of Violence: Visual Culture, Space, and Time in Berlin (Simon Ward) 7. Trash Aesthetics: New York, Globalization, and Garbage (Lindner) 8. Global Beijing: ‘The World’ is a Violent Place (Stephanie Hemelryk Donald) PART 3 – Spectacle 9. The Poetics of Scale in Urban Photography (Shirley Jordan) 10. Globalization and Cultural Capital: Symbolic Violence in Recent Filmic Images of Paris (Ruth Cruickshank) 11. Conspiracy, Surveillance, and the Spatial Turn in the Bourne Trilogy (Sue Harris)

"A timely and insightful exploration into one of the most important intersections today between cities, architecture and global culture. Stimulating and provocative." Prof Iain Borden, University of Central London, United KingdomUrban culture has always been marked by fear and enthrallment, mutability and meaning, rich and poor, but the specificity of these relations is ever changing. These wonderfully diverse and interdisciplinary essays, focusing especially on the visual culture of contemporary global cities, usefully present and take stock of these old themes in the garb of our time. Dr Thomas Bender, New York University, USA