Conflict urbanism: reflections on the role of conflict and peacebuilding in post-apartheid Johannesburg

Danielak, Silvia

doi:10.1080/21647259.2019.1634867

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“…This 'urban dilemma' thus encapsulates the idea that the city simultaneously has the potential for peacebuilding and for violent conflict. Silvia Danielak (2020) has similarly demonstrated the coexistence of destruction and production in the aftermath of violent conflict taking place in post-apartheid Johannesburg. She shows how 'momentary spaces of trust, empathy or solidarity exist within landscapes of insecurity, inequality, relative deprivation, disengagement and destruction' (Danielak 2020, 458).…”

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Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach

Ljungkvist

Jarstad

2021

Third World Quarterly

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In this article, we revisit the 'local turn' debate in the peacebuilding literature, and explore its most recent and promising approach to 'the local' , focussing on post-war cities and on urban dimensions of peacebuilding. There is still substantive contestation and frustration in the peacebuilding research field with regards to the conceptual fuzziness of 'the local' , and with the continual failures of international interventions to actually take into account local perspectives, promote local agency and establish local ownership. In this article, we explore to what extent recent urban approaches to peacebuilding can help alleviate some of the conceptual problems that has persisted in the literature. We reflect on and raise questions about what a focus on cities and urban perspectives is contributing to the study of local peacebuilding more specifically. We suggest three facets of analytical added value: (1) an increased understanding of how the particularities of urban and rural space affects peacebuilding locally and potentially beyond; (2) how cities and urban space are interrelated with traditional territoriality; and(3) the methodological benefits of the city/urban as (local) analytical entry point. We also discuss potential pitfalls and limitations of urban approaches to peacebuilding, and identify prospective pathways for further research.

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Section: The Turn To Urban Perspectives In Peacebuilding Studiesmentioning

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Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach

Ljungkvist

Jarstad

2021

Third World Quarterly

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“…Danielsson 2020;Ljungkvist & Jarstad 2021). Border cities like Cúcuta thus seem to hold the potential to develop a form of 'insurgent citizenship' (Holston 2009) from the periphery, provide possible pathways of transforming violent into non-violent conflicts, and play a productive role in advancing conviviality and peace (see Danielak 2020).…”

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Urban Insecurity, Contested Governance, and Civic Resistance at the Colombia-Venezuela Border

Hochmüller

2022

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces

Gusic

2022

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Conflict urbanism: reflections on the role of conflict and peacebuilding in post-apartheid Johannesburg

Cited by 3 publications

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Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach

Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach

Urban Insecurity, Contested Governance, and Civic Resistance at the Colombia-Venezuela Border

Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces

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