In this short essay, we respond to the insightful comments to our Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere by Drongiti, Tedeschi, Silva and Fauveaud. We reflect with the extent to which our book has managed to dwell in and care for the paradoxes of urban violence. This allows us to reconsider the ethnographic limits of the book and restate a core element and epistemological building bloc of our proposal, namely the intention to combine political-economic and vital materialist lenses to provide conceptually, methodologically, and politically sound grounds for exploring the urban/violence nexus beyond urban violence in the strictu sensu.

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Urban violence,Urbanisation,Atmosphere,Infra-structural violence

This publication is an output of the following project(s):

• UNCOMFORTABLE COMMONS. The paradigm of comfort and the promise urban commons: a conceptual, critical and empirical exploration
• UrbanoScenes. Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation: A future-oriented investigation from Portugal and Angola