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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"urban conflict"”.
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The political economy of rural-urban conflict : lessons from West Africa & India
… Development, Political Economy, and Peace & Conflict Studies to examine how economic networks spanning the rural-urban divide condition conflict dynamics between an urban-based state and its rural-based challengers. In some cases of such violent internal conflict, the combat frontier is messy …
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'This neighbourhood is an endangered species' : investigating urban conflict and reciprocity between Chicala and Luanda, Angola
… Chicala. The study situates Chicala among conflicts that have arisen in the urban densification process and their socio-political management, and in the context of a long history of natural formation. The particular geographical location of Chicala, along with its integrity and specific …
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Physical space and its role in the production and reproduction of violence in the "slum wars" in Medellin, Colombia (1970s-2013)
… often make a tacit linkage between the spaces of urban informality ("slums"), crime and violence. This occurs in academic circles-as exemplified by the common occurrence that when researchers seek to understand urban crime and violence, they tend to study urban informal spaces (slums, favelas, …
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Urban stairs
… in Korea has experienced a rapid economic and urban development. As a result, the city exposes extreme disharmony between different zones. For example, the heavy mega structures are inconsiderately located right next to the small old fabric district. The thesis especially focuses on the urban …
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Space, Memory and the Politics of Reconstruction: Conflict-related Property Disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia
This thesis explores the politics of conflict-related property disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia. Conflict-related property disputes are interpersonal disputes over private land and homes that are traceable to the violence that engulfed the city in 1991, and the mass displacements that occurred …
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Urban Rapprochement Tactics: Stitching Divided Nicosia
… communities in ethno-nationally induced urban conflicts through an in-depth analysis of the divided city of Nicosia. A much-debated question is whether sharing space has beneficial influence in interethnic relations. One approach posits that any level of contact between adversaries, even …
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Attacking cities: terrorism in Paris, London, and Manchester (2015-2020)
… factors regarding terrorist networks, yet the urban nature and implications of terrorism have received limited consideration, particularly regarding how terrorism and counterterrorism shape the materiality of urban spaces and intersect with urban life. To address these matters, this thesis …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… American democracy, and supported less moral urban dwellers. I argue that Jeffersonian agrarianism in the nineteenth century began to reject technological and social change and that this view of rural people as anti-modern has influenced the way observers of rural life have viewed farmers up …
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Navigating the neoliberal settler city: Palestinian mobility in Jerusalem between exclusion and incorporation
… of exclusion, reflecting their lack of access to urban services more broadly as well as the restrictive mobility regime at work across the Palestinian territories. Yet after fifty years of Israeli occupation, a more complex and contradictory situation has emerged in the city. This dissertation …
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Architecture, ‘coming to terms with the past’ and the ‘world in common’: Post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo
… and responsibility influence the rebuilding of urban space. Conversely, it argues that cities and architecture, through the meanings ascribed to them by various actors, play an important role in dealing with the past. Building on the moral philosophy of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt, it …