Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature & Culture
Thursday 14 February 2019, 5pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Planned Violence is a new edited collection which explores innovative ways of conceptualising the relationship between urban planning, its often violent effects, and literature. Comparing the spatial pasts and presents of the post-imperial and post/colonial cities of London, Delhi and Johannesburg, the essays in this volume explore how the colonial city, was imagined by its planners — and how this urban imagination, and the cultural and social interventions that arose in response to it, made violence a part of the everyday social life of its subjects.
Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with some of the contributors and the chance to purchase a copy of the book at a discounted rate.
