Geometry Problems: Future military interventions in the undivided African city
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City Seminar 2021: The Divided City
What is an African city to a soldier? The answer to this deceptively simple question will profoundly impact the lives of millions of people in the coming decades. For much of the global military establishment, Africa’s urban spaces are becoming a problem at precisely the moment that security discourse is shifting from counterinsurgency to climate change and conventional peer-to-peer warfare. What might recent events signal about the future direction of both foreign and domestic military engagements in African cities – and the consequences for those who live there? Extreme forms of segregation were the heart of colonial and postcolonial security measures in African cities. Is a different spatial order emerging for the continent’s urban battlespaces?
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