UID:
almahu_9949386495002882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 178 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781003090427
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1003090427
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9781000352443
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1000352447
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9781000352405
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1000352404
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9781000352429
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1000352420
Content:
"Bordered Cities and Divided Societies is a provocative, moving, and poetic encounter with the hearts and minds of individuals living in nine cities of conflict, violence, and healing-Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Beirut. Based on research spanning 25 years, including 360 interviews and over two and one-half years of in-country field research, this innovative work employs a series of concise reflective narrative essays, grouped into four thematic sections, to provide a humanistic, 'on-the-ground' understanding of divided cities, conflict, and peacemaking. Incorporating both scholarly analyses based on empirical research and introspective essays, Bollens digs underneath grand narratives of conflict to illuminate the complexities and paradoxes of living amidst nationalistic political strife and the challenges of planning and policymaking in divided societies. Richly illustrated, the book includes informative synopses about the cities that provide access for general readers, while extensive connections to recent literature enhance the book's research value to scholars"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Dramatis Personae: Polarized Cities of This Book -- Preface: Why I Am Here -- Introduction: Soul Trekking -- 1 Polarized: Us/Them -- Polarized -- Introduction -- Conflict -- The Living Soul Within -- Dead and Alive -- Intractability -- Long Memories in Tight Spaces -- The Question Posed by Polarized Cities -- Epic Cultures -- Urbicide -- Traverse -- The City Has a Rationality That the State Cannot Understand -- Us/Them -- Introduction -- To Unsee the Other (I) -- 13-Year-Old Boys
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This Makes Our Conflict Look Small -- Which One? -- Bounding the Postwar City -- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina-Synopsis -- The Longest 50 Meters in the World -- Nicosia, Cyprus-Synopsis -- Two Worlds Next to Each Other -- Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine-Synopsis -- Banality of Separateness -- Belfast, Northern Ireland-Synopsis -- Helicoptered -- The River Is Near the City -- Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina-Synopsis -- Two Societies or One? -- Barcelona, Spain-Synopsis -- Semantic Hegemony -- Green Lines -- If the South Had Won the American Civil War -- You Have to Decide Whose Side You're On
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Rape Gate -- Johannesburg, South Africa-Synopsis -- I Drew the Borders of Israel -- Region Versus State -- Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain-Synopsis -- No Bridges Left -- To Unsee the Other (II) -- Juxtaposition -- New Fault Line -- Beirut, Lebanon-Synopsis -- Kindergarten Rifles -- Huddling Together in a Closed Room -- How to Make It Easier to Stereotype the "Other" -- Auto Insurance -- The Occupation Next Door -- Euskera -- Sectarianism Without Conclusion -- 2 Emotions: Interior -- Introduction -- Where Once There Were Playgrounds -- Trauma of the Holocaust -- Comfort Zones
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Double-Minority Syndrome -- Oh, Jerusalem -- Professional Racism -- Eyes That Light Up -- Pray Tell -- Beauty and "No-Go" -- George Floyd and Ariel Sharon -- Bottom Up, Top Down -- Neither Neutral nor Benign -- Two Faces of Post-Apartheid Planning -- Emotionally Costly Peace -- Some Mornings -- Prejudice Zone -- Globalization With Mass Graves -- I Am Only an Observer Now -- Threat Simplifies -- Neighborhood Dogs -- I Leave Uneasy -- Beware of Ruins -- Defeated -- A Deeper Type of Despair -- Passing Along Hatred -- Tiger's Bay -- Dark Presence -- Conflict Ethnography
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Lived Experience and Technical Expertise -- Depleted Peace Seekers -- Ripe Setting -- Fear in a Soldier's Eyes -- Unsustainable Pain -- Risking Romance -- At Times, I Wonder -- Speaking American Loudly -- American Apartheid -- The Bombs of Guernica -- Brothers at War -- Defending the Future -- Criticizing Israel -- I Wait -- Who Could Have Devised a Strategy Such as This? -- We Don't Have a Choice -- The Ideologue and the Pragmatist -- I Am a Minority -- Clowns Without Borders -- Margins and Cracks -- The Edge Between Two Worlds -- Most Expensive Interview -- Solution -- A City of Slender People
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bollens, Scott A. Bordered cities and divided societies. New York : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367547448
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781003090427
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003090427
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