A Space for Kinship in City Diplomacy
Re-imagining Sister Cities amid Global Migration
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12953732 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Willoughby Fortunoff (0009-0008-4839-4295, Harvard University, autor de correspondencia), Cheryl Martens (0000-0003-2819-5869, Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Jenny Albarracín Méndez (0000-0002-4190-2938, University of Cuenca) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 20 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 132-162 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-01-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1871-1901 • E-ISSN: 1871-191X |
| Editorial | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1871191x-bja10199 |
| OpenAlex | W4406130679 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 22 |
In an era of escalating urbanisation and global migration, this research investigates the potential of sister city relationships in forging long-term and community-driven international ties. Are these city-to-city agreements outdated, or do they still offer contemporary benefits? The study is grounded in eight months of field research on relationships between US cities and the Ecuadorian cities of Cuenca and Quito during Ecuador’s 2024 state of emergency. A sequential mixed-methods approach includes semi-structured interviews with cultural, diplomatic and economic stakeholders, and quantitative survey data, to identify broader trends in perceptions of sister city relations. Ethnographic observations in municipal offices in Cuenca and Quito anchor the research in practical governance challenges. The study contributes to international relations and paradiplomacy discourse by proposing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that blends ideas of social power, kinship and peripheral realism to analyse sister city partnerships as tools of agency and identity in the context of global diplomacy and displacement
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Diplomacy · Geography · International relations · Kinship · Political science · Public Diplomacy · Sister · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |