‘Theoretically ambitious and grounded in an eclectic methodological approach, this volume is an outstanding contribution to the burgeoning field of urban studies and of violence. It brings together very successfully space and time as regimes and practices of city life that have structured the spatial experiences, temporalities, rhythms, and memories of urban violence. Adopting a scalar, multidisciplinary and comparative analysis to ‘map’ and ‘clock’ violent cities and societies, the case studies included in the volume reveal the mutually constitutive nature of the space-time axis in different urban settings, today as in the past. This book is an important and innovative read.’
—Nelida Fuccaro, New York University Abu Dhabi. Editor of Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East

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

Foreword
Niall Ó Dochartaigh
Introduction: Sites of violence, entangled in space and time
Mara Albrecht and Alke Jenss

Part I Space-time regimes and regulations: Changing forms of urban violence

1 Revolution lost and found: Collective actions, fears, and violently contested space-time regimes in Hamburg and Seattle (c. 1916–20)
Klaus Weinhauer
2 From riots to massacres: How space and time changed urban violence in Jerusalem, 1920-29
Roberto Mazza
3 Resisting a hegemonic spatiotemporal order: Hindu nationalist violence and subterranean agency in Ahmedabad
Shrey Kapoor

Part II Rhythms and spatiotemporal dynamics: Structuring effects on and of practices of urban violence

4 Six temporalities of urban violence: A comparative perspective on El Salvador and Jamaica
Hannes Warnecke-Berger
5 Disrupting the rhythms of violence: Anti-port protests in the city of Buenaventura
Alke Jenss
6 The urban pulse of violence: Spatiotemporal patterns in the riots in Belfast and Jerusalem during the era of the British Empire
Mara Albrecht

Part III Memories and (religious) imaginations: Representations of urban violence

7 Beirut’s violence palimpsest: Urban transformations, mnemonic spaces and socio-temporal practices
Christine Mady
8 ‘Humiliation Days’ – Remembering, repeating and expecting urban violence in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies
Andreas Bolte
9 Counter-mapping the divided city: Topographies of violence and the religious imagination in urban Brazil
Christian Laheij

Epilogue: Rhythms and space-time of violence in and of the city
Jutta Bakonyi