Planned Violence Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 865
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-91388-9
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319913872
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This edited collection (introduction, eighteen contributions, afterword) grew out of a two-year Leverhulme-funded research network, ‘Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure and Literature’ (2014-2016), which was convened by Davies’s co-editor, Professor Elleke Boehmer, and which Davies facilitated for the project’s duration. Boehmer and Davies worked equally to organise workshops in different cities across three continents (London, Delhi, Johannesburg, Oxford), and hosted a final keynote lecture and photography exhibition in Warwick. Many of the contributors to the Planned Violence collection were participants in either these workshops, or in a follow-up network funded by the British Council US that Davies co-convened with Boehmer, ‘Divided Cities: Infrastructure, Culture, and the Urban Future’ (2016-2017).
Boehmer and Davies worked closely together throughout these projects, developing their ideas through joint research, including a co-authored article in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2015) outlining the project’s key ideas and several photo essays of divided cities such as Oxford and Johannesburg, which they published on the project website (plannedviolence.org). They worked jointly to formulate the collection’s three-part structure, with sections on Planned/ Unplanned Cities; Forensic Infrastructures; and Structural Violence, Narrative Structure, and the innovative inclusion in each section of a creative ‘intervention’, including two short stories and a piece of creative non-fiction. Davies and Boehmer co-authored the book’s introduction (pp. 1-25), which establishes the collection’s interdisciplinary critical framework and includes original research. Davies was particularly responsible for bringing the fields of urban studies and critical infrastructure studies to the book’s interdisciplinary conversation. During the editorial phase, both editors edited every chapter at least once and Davies edited many of the chapters several times, helping authors to develop the arguments and structure of their essays, suggesting revisions and ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency. Davies put together the book’s index and worked with a graduate assistant to copy-edit the final book.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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