Urban Geopolitics

<p>In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too often focus on the abstract city level with marginal attention given to particular local contexts.</p><p></p><p>Moving away from loosely defined urban theories and contexts, this book argues it is time to start learning from and compare across different ‘contested cities’. It questions the long-standing Euro-centric academic knowledge production that is prevalent in urban studies and planning research. This book brings together a diverse range of international case studies from Latin America, South and South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to offer an in-depth understanding of the worldwide contested nature of cities in a wide range of local contexts. It suggests an urban ontology that moves beyond the urban ‘West’ and ‘North’ as well as adding a comparative-relational understanding of the contested nature that ‘Southern’ cities are developing.</p><p></p><p>This timely contribution is essential reading for those working in the fields of human geography, urban studies, planning, politics, area studies and sociology.</p> <p>Foreword Introduction: Towards Contested Urban Geopolitics on a Global Scale <b>Part I Comparative Urban Geopolitics </b>1. Post-War Reconstruction in Contested Cities: Comparing Urban Outcomes in Sarajevo and Beirut 2. Negotiating Cities: Nairobi and Cape Town 3. Ordinary Urban Geopolitics: Contrasting Jerusalem and Stockholm <b>Part II Urban Geopolitics: South and South East Asia </b>4. The Tale of Ethno-political and Spatial Claims in a Contested City: The <i>Muhajir</i> Community in Karachi 5. The Practice of ‘Marketplace Coordination’ in Jakarta (1977–98) 6. The Politics of <i>Doing Nothing</i>: A<b> Rethinking of the Culture of Poverty in Khulna <i>c</i>. 1882–1990</b> <b>Part III Urban Geopolitics: Middle East and North Africa </b>7. The Camp vs the Campus: The Geopolitics of Urban Thresholds in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus 8. Urban Planning, Religious Voices and Ethnicity in the Contested City of Acre: The Lababidi Mosque Explored 9. Exploring the Roots of Contested Public Spaces of Cairo: Theorizing Structural Shifts and Increased Complexity <b>Part IV Urban Geopolitics: Latin America </b>10. Unpacking Narratives of Social Conflict and Inclusion: Anti-gentrification Neighbourhood Organisation in Santiago, Chile 11. The Medellín's Shifting Geopolitics of Informality: The Encircled Garden as a Dispositive of Civil Disenfranchisement? 12. Assessing Critical Urban Geopolitics in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil <b>Part V Comparative Discussion </b>13. Geopolitics, Cosmopolitanism and Planning: Contested Cities in a Global Context Afterword: Lineages of Urban Geopolitics</p>