Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence - Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures

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.

About the author

Mara Albrecht is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Erfurt

Alke Jenss is Senior Researcher and Head of the Cluster Contested Governance at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg

Product details

• Authors: Mara Jenss Albrecht
• Assisted by: Mara Albrecht (Editor), Alke Jenss (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781526195623
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9562-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, Human Geography, Urban communities, Violence and abuse in society, Urban communities / city life