Interventions in urban geopolitics

Rokem, J. Stefan; Fregonese, Sara; Ramadan, Adam; Pascucci, Elisa; Rosen, Gillad; Charney, Igal; Paasche, Till F.; Sidaway, James D.

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.04.004

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“…Studying how Palestinians in Lydda think and feel about their surveilled districts as well as about the broader landscape of ruins around them resonates with Harb's () recent call for a perspective on ‘the city at war’ focused on people's everyday practices. It also resonates with calls for a ‘domestic urban geopolitics’ (Rokem et al , : 4), and for ‘the analysis of urban geopolitics and everyday life’ (Yacobi, ). I have suggested that urban sociology's conceptual focus on processes of spatial meaning‐making in everyday life offers important insights into developing a perspective on militarized cities that theorizes ‘the quotidian, embodied, and micro‐scale practices that shape urban politics and conflict’ (Fregonese, : 2).…”

Section: Towards An Everyday Perspective On Urban Militarismmentioning

confidence: 63%

Experiences of Urban Militarism: Spatial Stigma, Ruins and Everyday Life

Pasquetti¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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A key question in urban sociology is how people interpret the urban environment. At a time when cities are increasingly militarized, this question is particularly important for understanding how militarism impacts urban life. However, urban sociologists have not addressed how people experience militarized environments. This article turns to this question by considering the case of Lydda‐Lod, an Israeli city that has been demographically and physically transformed by war, displacement and securitization. Drawing on Wacquant's sociology of spatial stigma and adding insights from works on emotions in (post‐)conflict cities, I examine how poor Palestinians think and feel about the surveilled districts where they live within the city's broader landscape of ruins. I show how the Israeli military, security and policing agencies have collectively produced spatial stigmatization of these districts. I discuss how Palestinians respond to this spatial stigma by attaching a sense of worthlessness to their districts. However, this reproduction of spatial stigma is punctuated by expressions of care for the built environment and by a desire to revalorize collective Palestinian life in the city. I conclude by discussing how a perspective on militarized cities focused on everyday responses to militarism and attentive to marginalities enriches urban sociology and urban studies more generally.

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Section: Towards An Everyday Perspective On Urban Militarismmentioning

confidence: 63%

Experiences of Urban Militarism: Spatial Stigma, Ruins and Everyday Life

Pasquetti¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Analytically this implies moving away from the analysis of specific urban and/or development modalities and scales, towards a more open perspective of urbanism as a 'relational site' shaped through the engagements of different actors and claims making practices [13]. It is here where the novel framework of 'urban geopolitics' is particularly well suited, which has recently been put forward by political geographers Rokem et al and Rokem & Boano, which have sought to centre urban debates on everyday struggles over urban space [12,13]. The basic premise of urban geopolitics is that the control of urban space is inherently contentious and that these contentions should be brought to the foreground.…”

Section: From Development and Urbanism To Urban Geopoliticsmentioning

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“…The article begins with a concise discussion of contemporary debates on African urban development and urbanism, leading into a framework of 'urban geopolitics' centred on the everyday struggles over urban space [12,13]. This is then followed by a historical analysis of Beira's city, detailing an urban trajectory shaped through the rise and fall of (hostile) state regimes and broader global geopolitical shifts.…”

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Who Controls the City in the Global Urban Era? Mapping the Dimensions of Urban Geopolitics in Beira City, Mozambique

Shannon

2019

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In recent years, a new era of interventionism has emerged targeting the development of African cities, manifested in ‘fantasy’ urban plans, surging infrastructure investments and global policy agendas. What the implications of this new era will be for specific urban contexts is still poorly understood however. Taking this research agenda as a starting point, this article presents findings of in-depth empirical research on urban development in Beira city, Mozambique, which has recently become the recipient of massive donor investments targeting the built environment. Informed by current debates on urban geopolitics, the article unpacks these mounting global flows while locating them alongside pre-existing struggles over urban space. By doing so three distinct yet inter-related dimensions of urban geopolitics are identified, relating to the workings of the state, so-called ‘informality’ and international donors. Far from representing homogeneous categories, these dimensions each represent contradictory practices and interests which are shaping Beira’s urban trajectory. The article concludes by arguing that the inflow of donor resources has exacerbated pre-existing struggles over urban space while contributing to new contentions in ways which have undermined social equity targets of contemporary global development agendas. In doing so it provides important contributions to current debates on urban development in Africa

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“…The objective of urban geopolitics has therefore been to produce new insights on the fascinating yet potentially treacherous relationship between violent geopolitical processes and urban space (see, e.g. Rokem et al 2017).…”

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Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

Moisio¹

2018

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We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based "economization" can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.

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Interventions in urban geopolitics

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Cited by 45 publications

References 108 publications

Experiences of Urban Militarism: Spatial Stigma, Ruins and Everyday Life

Experiences of Urban Militarism: Spatial Stigma, Ruins and Everyday Life

Who Controls the City in the Global Urban Era? Mapping the Dimensions of Urban Geopolitics in Beira City, Mozambique

Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

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