This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial
fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the …

Urban events like 9‐11 and the Arab Spring have deeply marked the first two decades of a
century in which the majority of the world population will live in cities. This essay reviews …

Depictions of Lebanon in international politics have historically represented it as a 'weak
state'whose domestic sovereignty is eroded by nonstate actors viewed as anomalies to …

In 1919, as part of a further move against religion, the coffins of mediaeval 'saints' were
opened up and exposed to scientific scrutiny. The sweet-smelling, tear-shedding, eternally …

The article joins literature on urban geopolitics and on affective atmospheres to trace the
intensities of feeling that propagate during escalation and de-escalation of urban conflict in …

Este artículo presenta nuevas perspectivas de investigación y desafíos analíticos que la
teoría del actor-red (TAR) abre para los estudios urbanos. En primer lugar, se revisan cómo …

Urban conflict in Jerusalem has mainly been studied through the lens of spatial and
functional segregation and discriminative fragmentation between Israeli and Palestinian …

Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this
book examines the role of the urban environment in social polarisation processes. In doing …

This paper examines issues of power and resistance in “divided cities”. Basing my analysis
on fieldwork I carried out in Skopje, Macedonia, I look at how urban space may be …

Spatial inequality is an increasingly vital concept in urban sociology, capturing the
inequitable allocation of resources across space. But it omits an important and often …