Militarization as Global Urban Policy
August 31, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Development, Economy, Globalization, Human Rights, Migration, Militarization, New Wars, Politics, Population, Poverty, Public Policy, Risk Society, Social Exclusion, Social Inequalities, social marginality, Social Stratification, Structural Violence, Surveillance Society
This post at Crooks and Liars, relating the use of Blackwater for security operations in the aftermath the exepcted disaster of hurricane Gustav touches upon what I think is an important topic: the militarization of urban centers and the suppression of dissent and disorder in the name of security (Blackwater had also been used in [...]
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