Planned Violence

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The Leverhulme-funded network, ‘Planned Violence: Post/colonial Urban Infrastructures and Literature’, sets out to explore the shifting relationship between urban planning, violence and literary representation from colonial into postcolonial times.

The project examines the complex role of literature in theorizing the city: how contemporary patterns of violence are embedded within urban stories of the past, and how narrative complicates official histories of post-imperial, multicultural London, and postcolonial Delhi and Johannesburg. The network is based in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.

 

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Elleke Boehmer
elleke.boehmer@ell.ox.ac.uk

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August Clouds: Forensic Architecture's 2014 Gaza Investigation (January 2016) 

"Planned Violence" Keynote Lecture and Writer's Reading was held.  

Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, delivered a lecture entitled "August Clouds: Forensic Architecture's 2014 Gaza Investigation", and Courttia Newland, author of several novels including The Scholar and Society Within, read from his work. 

 

Planned Violence Exhibition (April 2017) 

Launched - Planned Violence: Post/colonial Cities' poster exhibition.   

The exhibition showed some of the provocative and memorable images capturing the work of the Leverhulme funded 'Planned Violence' project. Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies recounted some of the conceptual work of responding to infrastructural violence through cultural forms.  

A selection of the provocative urban images from the Leverhulme funded project Planned Violence: Post/colonial Infrastructures and Literature were on display. The photographs of cities ranging from Mumbai to Milton Keynes confronted how cultural forms can interrogate restrictions on urban environments in the 21st-century city.   

 

Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century 
 
Islamophobia – A seminar was held.
 
Research Presentations 
Three short research presentations were held by members of the network, followed by a discussion. 

 

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