dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-11T18:44:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-11T18:44:34Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-03-17T00:56:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gentile, Michael . Geopolitical fault-line cities in the world of divided cities. Political Geography. 2019, 71, 126-138 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/76901 | |
dc.description.abstract | The literature on divided (or contested) cities has expanded rapidly during the past decade, with a handful of iconic sites presiding over the long list of cities wounded by conflict, violence or general unrest. In this article, it is suggested that this literature has overlooked a particular, and increasingly prominent, type of divided city deserving of attention in its own right: the geopolitical fault-line city. The main differences between the “classic” divided city and the geopolitical fault-line city relate to the character and origin of conflict. In divided cities, conflict is mostly local and related to social and spatial justice concerns, discrimination, security and political representation; this makes it somewhat predictable. In geopolitical fault-line cities, on the other hand, the main disputes are about geopolitical alignment, foreign policy, and the overall character of government; such disputes are largely scripted elsewhere, adding a substantial measure of volatility. This article's contribution lies in its provisional theorization of the geopolitical fault-line city in the light of the literature on divided cities. Against a background of powerful ongoing changes in the global information landscape – most notably the increased influence of social media – it illustrates the main characteristics of the geopolitical fault-line city, theorizing its distinctiveness as intrinsically related to the spatio-temporal evolution of information diffusion across the territories of antagonistically predisposed geopolitical alliances. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Geopolitical fault-line cities in the world of divided cities | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Gentile, Michael | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,17,7,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1685350 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Political Geography&rft.volume=71&rft.spage=126&rft.date=2019 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | Political Geography | |
dc.identifier.volume | 71 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 126 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 138 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.03.002 | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:no-79990 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 0962-6298 | |
dc.identifier.fulltext | Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/76901/1/Gentile_2019_political_geography.pdf | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |
dc.relation.project | NFR/287267 | |