This article outlines the need for a sustained investigation into London’s relationship with terrorism. Drawing on recent critiques of security studies, and challenging histories of London’s violence, the article demands that we prioritize an analytical approach centred upon terrorism’s spatial impact. London’s built environment is loaded with symbolic resonances (from imperialism to neo-colonialism, institutional power to high finance), all of which have made (and make) this city a recurrent target for terrorism. Crucial to this reading of the city is an awareness of London’s transnational circuitry — that is, how violence committed in London is tethered to violence enacted abroad. By understanding terrorism through these spatial politics, it also becomes possible to isolate London as the historic origin of a new form of terrorist violence — one orientated around place alienation as opposed to targeted assassination. This shift can be located in the nineteenth century and connected to technological advances. It is this conjunction between terrorism and urban modernity that has been a constant refrain in London’s development.

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“建筑物在尖叫”：伦敦恐怖主义的空间政治

本文概述了对伦敦与恐怖主义的关系进行持续调查的必要性。借鉴最近对安全研究的批评，以及对伦敦暴力历史的质疑，这篇文章要求我们优先考虑以恐怖主义的空间影响为中心的分析方法。伦敦的建筑环境充满了象征性的共鸣（从帝国主义到新殖民主义，从制度权力到高级金融），所有这些都使（并使）这座城市成为恐怖主义的反复目标。对这座城市的这种解读至关重要的是对伦敦跨国电路的认识——也就是说，伦敦发生的暴力事件是如何与国外发生的暴力行为联系在一起的。通过这些空间政治理解恐怖主义，也有可能将伦敦孤立为一种新形式的恐怖主义暴力的历史起源——一种以地方异化为导向，而不是有针对性的暗杀。这种转变发生在 19 世纪，与技术进步有关。正是恐怖主义与城市现代性之间的这种结合一直是伦敦发展的一个制约因素。