Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities: Multidisciplinary Interpretations

An accessible, informative, and intrepid insight into urban violence through a decolonial and multidisciplinary lens. 

Placing peripheralized people at its center, Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities unpacks how urban violence must be understood from multiple points of view, namely through the distinct perspectives of powerholders, decision-makers, law enforcers, urban planners, creative artists, and particularly from the lived standpoint of less empowered communities. Combining social science approaches with explorations in film, media, and the performing arts, the volume challenges conventional, stereotypical, and reductive definitions and conceptions of urban violence by placing local marginalized communities at the forefront of a multilogue and embracing inclusive, innovative, and unconventional analytical and practical approaches and frameworks. A diverse cohort of contributors offers policy-focused counternarratives and potential solutions to systematized forms of overt, covert, and hybrid forms of urban violence(s).

Ashvin Devasundaram is a reader in global cinemas at Queen Mary University of London. Stamatis Zografos is an architect and associate professor in architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Márcio J. S. Mattos is a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais in Lisbon and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Brasília. Zoe Holman is an Australian journalist and writer, based between London and Athens. She is the author of Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe.