Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City

Smyth, Lisa; McKnight, Martina

doi:10.1111/1467-954x.12019

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“…Drawing on notions of vernacular and human security (Bubrandt, 2005), everyday peace is context specific and involves the observations and decisions made by individuals and communities as they navigate their way through life. While everyday peace navigation is required in all societies (for example, daily life in cities involves substantial degrees of tolerance and civility (Seidman, 2012; Smyth and McKnight, 2013; Tonkiss, 2003)), it may have greater importance in deeply divided and post-conflict societies. In such contexts, seemingly small issues and isolated incidents risk becoming a trigger for something more serious.…”

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Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict

2016

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Based on findings from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, the article considers how top-down and bottom-up narratives and understandings of conflict often differ. The article posits that top-down narratives are often the result of a peculiar framing system that imposes imaginaries on conflicts and those experiencing them. The bottom-up narratives, based on research in South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe, show that localised perceptions of peace, safety and security are not only articulated in different ways to top-down narratives but also raise different issues.

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2016

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“…Similarly, a study conducted by Smyth and McKnight (2013) on the mobility of mothers living in segregated inner-city neighborhoods in Belfast, an area characterized by low socioeconomic status, demonstrates the role of gender in crossing territorial borders. Interviews revealed a certain amount of relaxation of the tight boundaries marking space as 'ours' and 'theirs.'…”

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“…Therefore, as exemplified in the literature about contested cities (Lysaght & Basten, 2003;Smyth & McKnight, 2013) the relationship between gender exclusion, mobility, and ethno-national hierarchies is a convoluted one. Some of our observations contradict findings from other contested cities-for example, many Jerusalemite women, Palestinian ones especially, are not free to walk alone, while their brothers or male friends can, nor would they watch sports or have a coffee in male-dominated venues.…”

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(Ad)dressing belonging in a contested space: Embodied spatial practices of Palestinian and Israeli women in Jerusalem

Raanan

Avni

2020

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The article explores women's clothing choices from a feminist geopolitical lens to comprehend mobility practices and power-relations across the contested city of Jerusalem. Building on 80 interviews with Palestinian and Israeli women, we explore the different ways in which women's clothing choices can be interpreted as a spatial practice that affects urban im/mobilities. First, we demonstrate the different ways through which cultural and religious norms and representations of the body are perceived as both excluding and restricting women from using certain areas in the city. Second, we suggest that clothing practices may enable movement and mobility that potentially undermine social-cultural norms. Thus, women's bodies and clothing can be a political site of difference and resistance that somewhat underscores the insurmountability of boundaries in the contested spaces of Jerusalem.

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“…Most have investigated the impact of prolonged conflict over territory and public space. Roulston et al (2017) and Smyth and McKnight (2013) use walking methods to explore how people physically negotiate their segregated and spatially encoded environments. The Belfast Mobility Project couples geospatial technology with walking interviews to examine the production and reproduction of deeply segregated space in North Belfast (Hocking et al, 2018).…”

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Troubling places: Walking the “troubling remnants” of post‐conflict space

Robinson

Mcclelland

2020

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This paper explores the productive potential of walking methods in post-conflict space, with particular emphasis on Northern Ireland. We argue that walking methods are especially well suited to studying post-conflict spatial arrangements, yet remain underutilised for a variety of reasons. Specifically, we argue that walking methods can "trouble" dominant productions of post-conflict space, revealing its storied depth, multi-temporality, and the alternative narratives of the past that frequently remain hidden in places touched by violence. Critically, employing such place-sensitive approaches challenges "bad scripts" that reify polarised narratives of conflicted places, thereby enabling the writing of new spatial stories that are potentially generative of new research questions and scholarly insights rooted in overlooked, marginalised, or taken-for-granted people, places, and landscapes. Informed by both authors' ongoing research journeys, we argue that walking in troubled places can help scholars dig into the reservoirs of emotion, affect, vitality, and multi-temporality people experience in post-conflict landscapes, thus opening up new research vistas in places scholars might not have sought to look using only sedentary methods. K E Y W O R D S heritage, Northern Ireland, post-conflict space, Troubles, walking methods 1 | INTRODUCTION Violent conflict leaves its mark. It causes physical scars on bodies, creates absences where things and people have been permanently altered or destroyed, conditions avenues of memory and recall, and disrupts everyday mobilities and lived geographies. Violence leaves a legacy of "troubling remnants" (Jarman, 2002) and "spectral traces" (Jonker & Till, 2009). The former refers to material architecturemilitary fortifications, left-behind security paraphernalia, murals and monuments to the dead, places scored with the vestiges of horror and anguish. These tangible remains "trouble" post-conflict space, raising difficult questions of what to preserve, what to remove, why, and for whom. The latter refers to "surfacings of the dead," those "phantoms, histories, remnants, submerged stories and ways of knowing" capable of unearthing alternative cartographies of meaning and memory (Jonker & Till, 2009, p. 306). In this paper, we argue that the walking family of methods (henceforth walking methods) is a potentially transformative means of examining the striated layers of meaning inscribed into public space and everyday life in the aftermath of political violence. Yet in spite of the growing popularity of these methods across a host of disciplinary fields, they have rarely been applied to these purposes in post-conflict space. Specifically, we argue that the insights generated through walking methods have the potential to trouble dominant productions of post-conflict space by revealing alternative narratives of the past and alternative investitures in places and landscapes. While walking methods are no methodological panacea (Robinson & McClelland, 2020), they can help

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Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City

Cited by 16 publications

References 31 publications

Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict

Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict

(Ad)dressing belonging in a contested space: Embodied spatial practices of Palestinian and Israeli women in Jerusalem

Troubling places: Walking the “troubling remnants” of post‐conflict space

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