Requiem for Detroit

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Flashcards covering key concepts from the Violent Geographies lecture.

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Violent Geographies

A field exploring the relationship between geography and violence, including the violence inherent in political, social, and economic systems.

·       Geography originally served the purposes of extreme violence, ie serving empires; geopolitics

·       Many spies were geographers

·       Also, military geography is a discipline, especially in the US

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Objective Violence

Violence that is structural and systematic, not directly associated with a specific subject or actor.

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Detroit

City that declined from its peak in the mid-20th century, facing full ruination after the 2008 financial crash.

·       At the heart of the consumerist dream

·       Declined from mid-20th C

·       2008 financial crash full ruination

·       Only 1/3 of the city remains

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Military geography

A discipline of geography used in the military.

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domestic violence

·       The violence of our ordinary systems: political, social, economic etc

·       Eg, mining materials for our phones

·       Often called ‘objective violence’ because it’s not associated with a subject

·       Structural, systematic