ABSTRACT
Fragmentation Social fragmentation is fed by a global ‘ecology of fear’. When a large part of the world’s population was able to watch live as the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York collapsed to the ground, for many of them the idea of a secure, centered world was shattered in an instant. At that moment Mike Davis’ Ecology of Fear4] transcended the scale of its intellectual origins, Los Angeles, and became acutely global. War had been declared on ‘freedom and democracy’ and around the world anxiety attended living and working in urban areas.
