Governing polarized cities
, collectivités locales, gouvernance, ségrégation urbaine, conflit urbain, politique de la ville, Bollens Scott, Brussels, Bruxelles, Johannesburg, Belfast, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Jérusalem, Baghdad, Bagdad, Kirkuk, Kirkouk
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This article provides a comparative analysis of different institutional approaches to dealing with antagonistic group identity claims on the city. I discuss Brussels, Johannesburg, Belfast, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Kirkuk. These cities are broken down into three categories—(1) cities that have utilized power sharing and forms of transitional democratization effectively enough that stability of the local and national state has occurred, (2) cities that have made some progress but are vulnerable to regression because local political arrangements are not sufficiently stabilizing, and (3) cities where power sharing is itself contested and a potential contributor to further instability. The case studies of local governance of polarized cites reported point to their institutional diversity, frequent fragility, and the evolutionary nature of even the “best case” examples. A difficult predicament is faced by local government reform in cities of inter-group conflict. Shared local governance arrangements need to produce measurable differences on the ground in the short term sufficient to allow institutional legitimacy. Yet, necessary power-sharing limitations on local democracy may make local government less effective in producing these needed tangible changes.</div>
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<b>Scott Bollens </b>is the Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation and a Professor in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design at the University of California, Irvine.</div>
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available to download</a> from the University of Pennsylvania (scroll down or search for the PDF link).</div>
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Scott Bollens
28 October 2008
http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/ppec/sawyer/Speakers/Scott_Bollens.html
City and soul in divided societies
, conflit urbain, ségrégation urbaine, cadre de vie, urbanité, société urbaine, violence urbaine, Jerusalem, Jérusalem, Beirut, Beyrouth, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Nicosie, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, Barcelona, Barcelone, Bollens Scott A.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on 17 years of research and over 240 interviews with political leaders, planners, architects, community representatives, and academics, he blends personal reflections, reportage from a wealth of original interviews, and the presentation of hard data in a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of these urban environments of damage, trauma, healing, and repair.<br /> <br /> City and Soul reveals what it is like living and working in these cities, going inside the head of the researcher. This approach extends the reader’s understanding of these places and connects more intimately with the lived urban experience. Bollens observes that a city disabled by nationalistic strife looks like a callous landscape of securitized space, divisions and wounds, frozen in time and in place. Yet, the soul in these cities perseveres.<br /> <br /> Written for general readers and academic specialists alike, City and Soul integrates facts, opinions, photographs, and observations in original ways in order to illuminate the substantial challenges of living in, and governing, polarized and unsettled cities.</div> </div> <b>Scott A. Bollens </b>is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine.</div> </div>
Scott A. Bollens
Routledge
September 2011
288
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