"Creating peace for a city's intimate enemies is harder than making war. This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 - how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating s...

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1. Verfasser:	Bollens, Scott A. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Abingdon, Oxfordshire Routledge 2018
Schriftenreihe:	Planning, history and environment series Planning, history, and the environment series
Schlagworte:	Urban policy / Jerusalem Urban policy / Northern Ireland / Belfast Peace-building / Jerusalem Peace-building / Northern Ireland / Belfast Social conflict Conflict management
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"Creating peace for a city's intimate enemies is harder than making war. This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 - how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating stasis and regression. Based on extensive research, fieldwork, and interviews, Scott Bollens shows how seeking peace in these cities is shaped by the interaction of city-based actors and national elites, and that it is not just a political process, but a social and spatial one that takes place problematically over an extended period. He intertwines academic precision with ethnography and personal narrative to illuminate the complex political and emotional kaleidoscopes of these polarized cities. With hostility and competition among groups defined by ethnic, religious, and nationalistic identity on the increase across the world, this timely investigation contributes to our understanding of today's fractured cities and nations"--
Beschreibung:	Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps.)
ISBN:	9781315110226 1315110229