Scott Bollens

Urban Peacebuilding In Divided Societies

Belfast And Johannesburg

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Peacebuilding in Divided Societies explores the effects of urban policy and planning in the management of ethnic conflict in strife-torn societies, focusing on the cases of Belfast and Johannesburg. It combines perspectives from urban geography, political science, social psychology, and urban planning to study the relationship between ethnic ideologies and the urban strategies that affect ethnic territoriality in the form of urban land use, housing, economic development, services, and citizen involvement. The book contrasts Belfast, embedded within an uncertain shift from conflict to political settlement, with Johannesburg, engaged in post-resolution reconciliation, to analyze, along different points of societal transition, the contributions of urban policymaking to peacemaking and peacebuilding. It describes the differing rolesobstructive or facilitativethat contested cities can play amidst broader peacemaking efforts, consistent with Bollens contention that there are lessons in urban peacebuilding for constructing mutually tolerable living environments at the regional and national levels. Effectively, cities (and urban policies) are the locus for operationalizing national ideologies of ethnic coexistence. } Urban Peacebuilding in Divided Societies explores the effects of urban policy and planning in the management of ethnic conflict in strife-torn societies, focusing on the cases of Belfast and Johannesburg. It combines perspectives from urban geography, political science, social psychology, and urban planning to study the relationship between ethnic ideologies and the urban strategies that affect ethnic territoriality in the form of urban land use, housing, economic development, services, and citizen involvement. The book contrasts Belfast, embedded within an uncertain shift from conflict to political settlement, with Johannesburg, engaged in post-resolution reconciliation, to analyze, along different points of societal transition, the contributions of urban policymaking to peacemaking and peacebuilding. It describes the differing rolesobstructive or facilitativethat contested cities can play amidst broader peacemaking efforts, consistent with Bollens contention that there are lessons in urban peacebuilding for constructing mutually tolerable living environments at the regional and national levels. Effectively, cities (and urban policies) are the locus for operationalizing national ideologies of ethnic coexistence.}

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780367217211
• ISBN-10: 036721721X
• Artikelnr.: 69890675

Autorenporträt

Scott Bollens

Inhaltsangabe

Urban Areas Of Nationalistic Conflict
Contested Cities
Prospects and Limits of Urban Peace-Building
Belfast and Johannesburg
* Belfast: At The Sharp Edge
The Sectarian City
British Urban Policy Since 1972
Belfast and Peace
* Johannesburg: A Delicate Balancing Of Time
Urban Policy in Transition
Rebuilding Government Legitimacy
Johannesburg and Peace
* Conclusions
Urban Peace-Building