Place, pipelines and political subjectivities in invisibilized urban peripheries

Neste, Sophie L. Van

doi:10.1080/21622671.2019.1648314

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“…These debates also occurred shortly after a grassroots movement of ordinary citizens (and some municipalities) gaining a moratorium against shale gas extraction in Quebec. This citizen mobilization then continued in marches, direct action, and coalitions against pipelines that have been documented in greater depth elsewhere (Van Neste, 2020).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Although these different spaces of urban politics, governance, and resistance do not all carry the same weight and are far from being free of power struggles, there are times when some of their motivations, discourses, tactics, and practices align to produce convergent political forces (Nicholls, 2008; Sicotte and Joyce, 2017; Gobby et al, 2021; Van Neste, 2020).…”

Section: Performing and Assembling Urban Authority On Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We think this problem setting is important because it highlights a particular conjuncture for energy politics in recent years: the growing engagement of urban social movements and urban political elites against fossil fuel infrastructure (Sicotte and Joyce, 2017; Van Neste, 2020) in tandem with low-carbon policies. This urban contestation makes visible the deep entanglements of energy in urban landscapes, but have yet to be thoroughly studied in that regard (see however Simpson, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes

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Couture-Guillet

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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From 2013 to 2016, two pipeline projects were vigorously contested in the Tiohtià:ke: Montreal area in Quebec, Canada. These disputes are analyzed as instances of the urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure. This politicization involves power struggles for authority in energy landscapes, particularly in relation to the material entanglement of energy in the city-region, that is, which parts of the infrastructure and landscapes come to matter. Drawing on work from political ecologists and scholars pressing for a rematerializing of urban studies, we supplement their insights with a conceptualization of struggles for urban authority in the governance of energy, in two parallel processes: one of performing centralized urban authority (notably with the media) and a second messier politics of multiplicities operating in spaces of urban governance and resistance. Struggles for urban authority are co-constructed with the socio-material realities of infrastructure and involve actors who are engaged in everyday practices of regulating, maintaining and protecting landscapes. Yet, in the mediatization of urban energy landscapes, certain voices, notably of Indigenous communities, remain on the margins, resulting in few challenges to settler colonialism and climate-changing extractivism.

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The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes

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Couture-Guillet

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…The term 'political engagement' encompasses the various means by which citizens seek to alter their lives and their political institutions: typically, by voicing diverse opinions and reaching agreements (e.g., see Blokland et al, 2015;Cohen-Blankshtain and Ron, 2013;de Graaf et al, 2015;Van Neste, 2020). In divided societies characterised by social groups embroiled in continuous struggle, political engagement with the other side is usually highly contested and, sometimes, normatively forbidden (Bar-Tal, 2007;Bar-Tal and Teichman, 2005).…”

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Leadership repertoire and political engagement in a divided city: The case of East Jerusalem

2023

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Do the leaders of minority communities in divided cities influence group members’ expressed willingness to engage politically with rival groups? Studies typically link group members’ willingness to engage with rival groups to direct contact between individuals from opposing groups. However, such contact is problematic in divided cities, wherein opportunities to interact are scarce and frowned upon. Focusing on the contested urban space of Jerusalem, we find indications that the diverse nature of community leadership in East Jerusalem can influence Palestinian residents’ attitudes towards political engagement with Israeli authorities via municipal elections. The ‘middlemen’ role can explain community leaders’ influence in divided cities. They facilitate indirect contact between their constituents and the other group’s members or institutions. Our analysis employs original data from a public opinion survey conducted among Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem immediately prior to the Jerusalem 2018 municipal elections. It has ramifications regarding urban governance for other divided cities.

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“…One particularly fruitful focus has been infrastructure, including the production of networked infrastructures beyond the city ( Cowen, 2019 ; Filion and Pulver, 2019 ; Van Neste, 2019 ) and the everyday practices related to infrastructure use and delivery ( Bhan, 2019 ; McFarlane and Silver, 2017 ; Silver, 2014 ; Simone, 2004 ). The engagement with infrastructures has always been a critical component of UPE ( Kaika and Swyngedouw, 2000 ; Marvin and Graham, 2001 ; Young and Keil, 2005 ), but the call for a situated UPE is in dialogue with the recent ‘infrastructural turn’ in urban studies ( Graham, 2010 ).…”

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Moving urban political ecology beyond the ‘urbanization of nature’

Tzaninis

Mandler

Kaïka

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Progress in Human Geography

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Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of ‘cities’ as ontological entities separate from ‘nature’ and on how the production of settlements is metabolically linked with flows of capital and more-than-human ecological processes. The contribution of this paper is to recalibrate UPE to new urban forms and processes of extended urbanization. This exploration goes against the reduction of what goes on outside of cities to processes that emanate unidirectionally from cities. Acknowledging UPE’s rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, this paper identifies four emerging discourses that go beyond UPE’s original formulation.

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Place, pipelines and political subjectivities in invisibilized urban peripheries

Cited by 10 publications

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The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes

The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes

Leadership repertoire and political engagement in a divided city: The case of East Jerusalem

Moving urban political ecology beyond the ‘urbanization of nature’

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