Neoliberalising the divided city

Véron, Ophélie

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102428

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“…Globally resurgent ethno-nationalisms have changed the character of urban space, producing new genres of fortification that align with trends associated with “the neoliberal city” (Desai, 2010; Véron, 2021; Yacobi, 2016). While these fortifications draw on longer-standing fears of crime and ethnic violence, they also reflect an intensified geopoliticization of the urban that downscales bordering processes from national boundaries to cities and even streets (Akar, 2018).…”

Section: The Body In Crisis the Embodiment Of The Zonementioning

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The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

Waldman

Ghertner

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This essay analyzes embodied experiences of enclaving. It argues that by tracking revolutions in built form that gating enacts, urban geography has simultaneously tracked revolutions in urban subjectivity. It highlights three enclaved “body types” within existing literature: securitized bodies in fortressed cities, performative bodies in consumptive enclaves, and hygienic bodies in purified zones. It then offers three ethnographic scenes of gating related to new crises of personhood: metabolic illness, atmospheric breakdown, and resurgent ethno-nationalism. Attention to the psychic forces behind gating, it finally argues, can further show the gender, class, and ethnic underpinnings of what appear as generic architectural zones.

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Section: The Body In Crisis the Embodiment Of The Zonementioning

confidence: 99%

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

Waldman

Ghertner

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…(2017) highlight, two lines of research have emerged from this approach: the first deals with processes of militarisation and imaginaries of late‐modern and asymmetrical wars (Coaffee, 2004; Coward, 2008; Elden, 2013; Graham, 2010; Sassen, 2010; Weizman, 2007). The second focuses on contested cities, with reference to the role of planning and architecture in ethno‐national conflicts (Badescu, 2022; Fregonese, 2009; Genç, 2021; Veron, 2021). However, the relationship between cities and armed forces is not only evident in the destructive and targeting dimensions of war, but also in cities as sites of war preparation and administration in areas commonly considered ‘at peace’.…”

Section: Urban Geopolitics Military Geographies and Urban Multidimens...mentioning

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Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban

Spanu

2023

Geography Compass

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Armed forces in urban areas are a very visible source of socio‐spatial and urban change. Even in contemporary cities ‘at peace’, this presence and ensuing changes can be wide‐ranging, evident across infrastructure, organisations, narratives of place, events, and everyday activities. Although over the past 2 decades critical military studies and urban geopolitics have explored some of these themes, an urban studies perspective on such military geographies in peacetime has elicited far less attention. The aim of this article is to open up opportunities for deeper conceptualisation and research on urban military geographies. This article establishes a dialogue between critical military studies and urban geopolitics, to review the different dimensions of the influence of a military presence in urban space, and to provide a synthesis of these two bodies of literature. Using Lefebvre's dialectical theory of spatial production, this review shows how cities can be privileged spaces for the reproduction of militarism and preparation for war. Moreover, it examines how the presence of military forces in peacetime can influence the material and immaterial production of urban space.

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“…In this context, Goodfellow and Jackman’s concept of “co-operative empowerment” is helpful, as it relates to a situation in which those targeted are not simply bought off but they “manage to gain some increased leverage for their own agendas through this interaction” (Goodfellow and Jackman 2020, 22). The same year Skopje 2014 was presented, the Skanderbeg square project, representing Albanian nationalism, was announced, signaling a possible compromise between the coalition partners (Véron 2021). In this way, both parties exercised power not through conflict and resistance but through a co-optive and opportunistic strategy that helped implement their urban plans (Goodfellow and Jackman 2020).…”

Section: Political Strategies To Control the Capital And Urban Design...mentioning

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“…Academic analyses of Skopje 2014 have highlighted the attempt to link the emergence of the project with geopolitical tensions over the name issue with Greece (Kolozova et al 2013; Dimova 2013). Other works approached the project from different academic angles, such as social movements (Mattioli 2014; Véron 2016; Staletović and Pollozhani 2022), neoliberalism and nation-branding (Graan 2013, 2016; Véron 2021), political mobilization and the role of the socialist heritage (Stefoska and Stojanov 2017; Janev 2017; Koteska 2011), as well as from the urban planning perspective and ethnic nationalism (Grcheva 2018; Mojanchevska 2020; Čamprag 2019). The nondemocratic background and its relations to the financial aspect of Skopje 2014 were examined by Mattioli (2018; 2020), while other scholars focused on the arbitrary urban planning processes (Blazhevski 2021; Čamprag 2019).…”

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Captured City: Authoritarianism, Urban Space and Project Skopje 2014

Staletović

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article looks at different strategies in which authoritarianism operated in relation to the redesign of Skopje during the rule of the conservative party VMRO-DPMNE and its leader Nikola Gruevski. It argues that the promoters of the urban project called “Skopje 2014” relied on a set of nondemocratic mechanisms and involvement and coordination of various individuals and institutions on all levels to implement and legitimize the project and expand its political dominance. These ranged from state-driven mechanisms and urban design strategies to contributions of non-state groups, thus demonstrating a systematic effort behind the makeover of Skopje. Examining the project through the concept of authoritarianism, the article goes beyond (methodological) nationalism to understand the complexity of the revamp of North Macedonia’s capital. It also demonstrates how the party used its ideological principles to leave its enduring mark on Skopje’s urban environment. Additionally, the article points out the need to study urban space politics in the context of hybrid and competitive authoritarian regimes.

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Neoliberalising the divided city

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban

Captured City: Authoritarianism, Urban Space and Project Skopje 2014

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