Everyday agency and transformation: Place, body and story in the divided city

Selimovic, Johanna Mannergren

doi:10.1177/0010836718807510

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“…Urban Geography hegemony of neoliberalism as the dominant force that shapes urban citizenship, pointing instead to other logics such as ethnicity, nationalism, and religion (Yiftachel 2016). The Jerusalem example also stresses the significance of everyday practices, dilemmas, and agencies that shape everyday life in the shadow of the overarching conflict (Selimovic 2019;Greenberg Raanan and Avni 2020).…”

Section: Urban Citizenship In a Non-democratic Contextmentioning

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Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem

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Urban environments are often disputed over issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Urban citizenship within such spaces has been found to be fragmented, or even 'dark.' Intermediary organizations that represent spatially concentrated communities often operate under these contentious circumstances. This paper focuses on the role of intermediary institutions in the contested city of (East) Jerusalem. Building on in-depth interviews and site visits, we suggest that CCs implement a limited form of urban citizenship via a range of functions that vary from service provision to political representation. We explain the process by which this form of urban citizenship is created and operated, and highlight the precarity of the concept in a non-democratic context where most people are stateless residents. Through this case, we seek to enrich the literature on urban citizenship and CCs in contested cities with an emphasis on the multiple urban and national logics that operate in space.

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Section: Urban Citizenship In a Non-democratic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem

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“…In contrast to this, Johanna Selimovic (2019) noted that Palestinians in the divided city of Jerusalem used wall-climbing, Skype, and Facebook posts to defy the mobility, employment, and security restrictions imposed upon them by Israeli authorities. They effectively created a momentous 'peace' that worked for them.…”

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Forging Peace in Damascus: On International Aid, Localized Elite Bargaining, and Insider Mediators

Kania

2021

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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Scholarship identified the present and future of war as increasingly characterized by urbanization and political-economic actors that Western international assistance defines as 'illicit', 'illiberal' or 'criminal'. This article asks how Western international assistance could and should shape war-topeace transitions for contributing to the emergence of lasting non-violent 'peaces'. It combines scholarly insights from 'pragmatic peacebuilding' scholarship and practice with interviews and grey literature on masterplanning projects in two neighborhoods in Damascus, Syria, that are prepared for 'reconstruction' or 'redevelopment', namely Qaboun and Basateen al-Razi. Thereby, it, on the one hand, challenges current approaches that, as in the case of Syria, presume that macropolitical pressure, diplomacy, and sanctions would forge an enduring outcome. It argues that 'peace' must be recognized as an order that is particular to a given time, space, and their inherent relations of political-economic actors (political settlements) and is, thus, changeable and expandable to including more people's interests and subject matters. On the other hand, it promotes an elongation and bridging of the emerging consensuses across the reviewed literatures that supporting local actors who are recognized and respected as mediators by all relevant conflict parties provide for a fruitful avenue to expanding the inclusivity of peaces and their underlying political settlements. This adds to the repertoire of newly emerging sustainable peacebuilding methods and signposts towards further studies of 'localized elite bargaining'.

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“…However, it is important here to acknowledge that people's agency is not erased, albeit it might be constrained through structural inequalities. Even in the most deeply divided societies people do have a fair amount of autonomy in their actions (Selimovic 2019).…”

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Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq

O’Driscoll

2021

Third World Quarterly

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Taking as a starting point the conviction that everyday interactions carry the potential to be either conflictual or peaceful, this article examines people's everyday behaviour in the deeply divided city of Kirkuk, Iraq. Using the historic bazaar in Kirkuk city as a site of analysis, and through a research survey of 511 people, it focuses on interactions between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen. The article draws on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic capital and takes an intersectional approach to analyse the everyday interactions in the bazaar to create a better understanding of the role of space and privilege. The results demonstrate that for the most part, at the everyday level people carry out acts of everyday peace rather than conflict. However, when everyday conflict does occur, those with the highest symbolic capital are the most likely actors. Additionally, although gender does influence people's actions, ethnosectarian identity has greater influence in many areas related to everyday peace and conflict. On a practical level, the article argues that such an understanding can connect better to policymaking and peacebuilding as it can point to where and how peacebuilders should focus their attention in order to promote and enhance peace within people's everyday lives.

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Everyday agency and transformation: Place, body and story in the divided city

Cited by 34 publications

References 37 publications

Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem

Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem

Forging Peace in Damascus: On International Aid, Localized Elite Bargaining, and Insider Mediators

Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq

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