Cartographies of encounters: Understanding conflict transformation through a collaborative exploration of youth spaces in Beirut

Lefort, Bruno

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102093

Cited by 10 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…These articles provide nuanced understandings of China's massive scale BRI project and suggest an empirically rich 'scalar turn' in geopolitical and geo-economic examinations by underscoring the relational and disputed process of BRI in particular places (Oliveira et al, 2020). These studies address the use of violence against populations to preserve or extract resources and call for more methodological approaches to scale, highlighting microgeographies, microdynamics, and micosituations (Dwyer, 2020;Lawreniuk, 2020a;Lefort, 2020).…”

Section: Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Political geography 1: Extractions

Fluri

2020

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This progress report incorporates the concept of extraction as an umbrella term for political and geopolitical analyses of the spaces, sites, settings, and scales of power, authority, influence, and resistance. The political geographies of extraction discussed in this report include an assemblage of human-and-nonhuman actors across divergent epistemologies and ontologies, as well as forms of recognition, representation, and repression within and across states, borders, and spatial scales. The research surveyed here covers both state and non-state actors to address national and corporate methods commensurate with ongoing and new conflicts over resources, how they are extracted, conserved, distributed, shared, and hoarded.

show abstract

Section: Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Political geography 1: Extractions

Fluri

2020

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However, the relationship between young people and their environments is mutually constitutive. Young people continually assess their environments to develop a practical knowledge of potential social, political and economic outcomes that are offered by urban areas (Deeb & Harb, 2013; Larkin, 2012; Lefort, 2020). Following examples set by scholars of youth urbanism (particularly Deeb & Harb, 2013 and Larkin, 2012), this paper treats young people’s lived experiences as a valuable source of knowledge about the urban.…”

Section: Study Aimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young people’s perspectives of inequitable urban change in Lebanese towns affected by mass displacement

Sender¹

2022

Regional Science Policy & Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper assesses the planning processes which shape urban change in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, from the perspectives of adults working in planning, and young residents. Beginning with the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, the towns of Bar Elias, Marj and Majdal Anjar have grown rapidly, as tens of thousands of people have been displaced there. Young Syrians and Lebanese residents’ experiences of urban change point to the role that planning processes play in inequitable urban change. Inequitable urban change negatively impacts Lebanese as well as Syrian residents. Post‐2011 planning policies addressing the Syrian Refugee Crisis do not effectively address the planning processes which create and enable inequalities. They risk obscuring this source of common struggles and exacerbating inequalities.

show abstract

“…Urban geopolitics, in sum, is shift ing away from accounts limited to institutionalized and macro-level politics of "confl ict urbanism" (Misselwitz and Rieniets 2006) as monolithic shapers of confl ict and urban space and is attending instead to the quotidian, fi ligree, and ordinary practices that complicate, negotiate, or even actively disrupt (Musallam 2020) the macro-level frameworks and offi cial contours of confl ict. Th ese contributions delineate other, ordinary topographies of contested urbanism that span mobility (Baumann 2015;McGahern 2019), personal agencies and imaginings (Lefort 2020), embodied practices (Greenberg Raanan and Avni 2020) and consumption (Shtern 2016).…”

Section: Shockwave 1-londonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shockwaves

Fregonese

2021

Conflict and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urban conflict literature has attempted new comparisons between contested cities in conflict zones and cities with no armed conflict. This literature tends to use representational frameworks around defensive planning and normative government discourses. In this article, I propose to expand these frameworks and to engage with epistemologies of lived experience to produce new relational accounts linking “conflict cities” with “ordinary cities”. The article accounts for the lived, sensory and atmospheric in exploring the legacies of conflict on the everyday urban environments. It then reflects on the everyday and experiential effects of counterterrorism in ordinary cities. While this is designed to minimize threat, it also alters urban spatiality in a way reminiscent of urban conflict zones. It then explores the unequal impacts of counterterrorism across urban publics, and their experiential connections with practices of counterinsurgency. The article is structured around two ‘shockwaves’ entwining lived experiences across seemingly unrelatable urban settings.

show abstract

Cartographies of encounters: Understanding conflict transformation through a collaborative exploration of youth spaces in Beirut

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Political geography 1: Extractions

Political geography 1: Extractions

Young people’s perspectives of inequitable urban change in Lebanese towns affected by mass displacement

Shockwaves

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About