Jonathan Rokem
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Rokem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rokem |
| SIGNATURE | ROKEM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1595-5040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Bringing nationalism into global urban studies
This critical commentary investigates the resurgence of nationalist politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that cities are critical arenas in which contemporary nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. While scholarship on nationalism, geopolitics and international relations remains largely state-centric, global urban studies has tended to treat cities as denationalised nodes embedded in transnational networks of…
Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities
This special issue explores geographies of peace in violently contested cities – cities where the socio-political order is contested by actors who use violence and repression to either challenge or reinforce the prevailing distribution of power and political, economic, and social control. The articles within the special issue theorise and explore where, when, how, and why urban conflicts manifest themselves in the context of contested cities. Tog…
Towards Urban Geopolitics of Encounter: Spatial Mixing in Contested Jerusalem
The extent to which ‘geographies of encounter’ facilitate tolerance of diversity and difference has long been a source of debate in urban studies and human geography scholarship. However, to date this contestation has focused primarily on hyper-diverse cities in the global north-west. Adapting this debate to the volatile conditions of the nationally-contested city, this paper explores intergroup encounters between Israelis and Palestinians in Jer…
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence
This introduction to the special section explores geopolitical dimensions of conflict and violence in cities, pointing at the need to continue learning from marginal urban settings. It broadens the scope across differentiated approaches, such as the francophone and anglophone urban geopolitical traditions. By opening up a wider perspective, the emphasis is not on cities as part of a matrix of global hierarchies of geographical power but on the mu…
Polarizations, exclusionary neonationalisms and the city
J erusalem
Jerusalem represents a rather exceptional urban case study because of its unique position as the global center of the three largest monotheistic religions since biblical times. Jerusalem is both a symbolic and a tangible focal point in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; and competing religious and political narratives have affected its development. This brief entry attempts to capture some of the main themes in Jerusalem's planning history over th…
Geographies of ethnic segregation in Stockholm: The role of mobility and co-presence in shaping the ‘diverse’ city
This article assesses how urban segregation and ethnic diversity in Stockholm have been shaped by spatial policy and migration trajectories over time. Much of the urban studies and planning literature defines segregation as a measure of residential mixing. In contrast, our research suggests that segregation could be understood as a lack of opportunities for interaction in public space. In the case of Stockholm, space syntax network analysis and t…
Contrasting Jerusalem: Contested urbanism at the crossroads
As far as the relation between planning and politics is concerned, Jerusalem represents an exceptional urban case to study. Jerusalem is a symbolic and tangible focal point in the Israeli Palestinian conflict, earning its position in urban studies and planning literature as one of the most ethno-nationally divided, polarized and contested cities (Bollens 2000; Klien 2001; Dumper 2014; Shlay and Rosen 2015). Competing religious and political narra…
Segregation, mobility and encounters in Jerusalem: The role of public transport infrastructure in connecting the ‘divided city’
This paper assesses ways in which urban segregation is shaped and transformed by Jerusalem’s public transport network, enhancing mobility and potential group encounters. We suggest that segregation should be understood as an issue of mobility and co-presence in public space, rather than the static residential-based segregation that continues to be a central focus of debate in urban studies. We explore public transport infrastructures, considering…
Geographies of violence in Jerusalem: The spatial logic of urban intergroup conflict
Interventions in urban geopolitics
Beyond incommensurability: Jerusalem and Stockholm from an ordinary cities perspective
This paper’s core argument is that we should start creating theories that encompass different \ncities and include them in a more flexible and relational comparative framework. This must \ninclude a new urban terminology which does not continue the all-too-fashionable labelling \nof cities on a continuum between first world and third world, global North-West and \nSouth-East or as I emphasize below, including what have been labelled extremely con…
Learning from Jerusalem: Rethinking urban conflicts in the 21st century Introduction
Jerusalem - its past, present and future - will serve as the foundation of our understanding of the geographies of cities within contemporary urban theory and practice in the 21st century. The underlying theoretical supposition in this special feature1 is that what have been labelled con- tested cities have growing similarities to less polarized cities similarities found in the expansion of ethnic, racial and class conflicts that revolve around i…
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
This article explores the role of planning in the deeply divided and politically polarized context of Jerusalem. The overall argument developed throughout the article is that the relation between planning and politics is a non-hierarchical set of interactions, negotiated within specific historical, geographical, legal and cultural contexts-in other words, orders don't come down from the politicians to be slavishly followed by planners. In this re…
Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’
Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on…
The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities
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 growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field of research. Still, the “divided city” literature tends to elevate a small number of cities to paradigmatic examples and to…
Interventions in urban geopolitics
Segregation, mobility and encounters in Jerusalem: The role of public transport infrastructure in connecting the ‘divided city’
This paper assesses ways in which urban segregation is shaped and transformed by Jerusalem’s public transport network, enhancing mobility and potential group encounters. We suggest that segregation should be understood as an issue of mobility and co-presence in public space, rather than the static residential-based segregation that continues to be a central focus of debate in urban studies. We explore public transport infrastructures, considering…
Geographies of ethnic segregation in Stockholm: The role of mobility and co-presence in shaping the ‘diverse’ city
This article assesses how urban segregation and ethnic diversity in Stockholm have been shaped by spatial policy and migration trajectories over time. Much of the urban studies and planning literature defines segregation as a measure of residential mixing. In contrast, our research suggests that segregation could be understood as a lack of opportunities for interaction in public space. In the case of Stockholm, space syntax network analysis and t…
Geographies of violence in Jerusalem: The spatial logic of urban intergroup conflict
Learning from Jerusalem: Rethinking urban conflicts in the 21st century Introduction
Jerusalem - its past, present and future - will serve as the foundation of our understanding of the geographies of cities within contemporary urban theory and practice in the 21st century. The underlying theoretical supposition in this special feature1 is that what have been labelled con- tested cities have growing similarities to less polarized cities similarities found in the expansion of ethnic, racial and class conflicts that revolve around i…
Beyond incommensurability: Jerusalem and Stockholm from an ordinary cities perspective
This paper’s core argument is that we should start creating theories that encompass different \ncities and include them in a more flexible and relational comparative framework. This must \ninclude a new urban terminology which does not continue the all-too-fashionable labelling \nof cities on a continuum between first world and third world, global North-West and \nSouth-East or as I emphasize below, including what have been labelled extremely con…
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
This article explores the role of planning in the deeply divided and politically polarized context of Jerusalem. The overall argument developed throughout the article is that the relation between planning and politics is a non-hierarchical set of interactions, negotiated within specific historical, geographical, legal and cultural contexts-in other words, orders don't come down from the politicians to be slavishly followed by planners. In this re…
Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’
Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on…
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence
This introduction to the special section explores geopolitical dimensions of conflict and violence in cities, pointing at the need to continue learning from marginal urban settings. It broadens the scope across differentiated approaches, such as the francophone and anglophone urban geopolitical traditions. By opening up a wider perspective, the emphasis is not on cities as part of a matrix of global hierarchies of geographical power but on the mu…
Polarizations, exclusionary neonationalisms and the city
Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities
This special issue explores geographies of peace in violently contested cities – cities where the socio-political order is contested by actors who use violence and repression to either challenge or reinforce the prevailing distribution of power and political, economic, and social control. The articles within the special issue theorise and explore where, when, how, and why urban conflicts manifest themselves in the context of contested cities. Tog…
Towards Urban Geopolitics of Encounter: Spatial Mixing in Contested Jerusalem
The extent to which ‘geographies of encounter’ facilitate tolerance of diversity and difference has long been a source of debate in urban studies and human geography scholarship. However, to date this contestation has focused primarily on hyper-diverse cities in the global north-west. Adapting this debate to the volatile conditions of the nationally-contested city, this paper explores intergroup encounters between Israelis and Palestinians in Jer…
Contrasting Jerusalem: Contested urbanism at the crossroads
As far as the relation between planning and politics is concerned, Jerusalem represents an exceptional urban case to study. Jerusalem is a symbolic and tangible focal point in the Israeli Palestinian conflict, earning its position in urban studies and planning literature as one of the most ethno-nationally divided, polarized and contested cities (Bollens 2000; Klien 2001; Dumper 2014; Shlay and Rosen 2015). Competing religious and political narra…
The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities
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 growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field of research. Still, the “divided city” literature tends to elevate a small number of cities to paradigmatic examples and to…
Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’
Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on…
Beyond incommensurability: Jerusalem and Stockholm from an ordinary cities perspective
This paper’s core argument is that we should start creating theories that encompass different \ncities and include them in a more flexible and relational comparative framework. This must \ninclude a new urban terminology which does not continue the all-too-fashionable labelling \nof cities on a continuum between first world and third world, global North-West and \nSouth-East or as I emphasize below, including what have been labelled extremely con…
Learning from Jerusalem: Rethinking urban conflicts in the 21st century Introduction
Jerusalem - its past, present and future - will serve as the foundation of our understanding of the geographies of cities within contemporary urban theory and practice in the 21st century. The underlying theoretical supposition in this special feature1 is that what have been labelled con- tested cities have growing similarities to less polarized cities similarities found in the expansion of ethnic, racial and class conflicts that revolve around i…
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
This article explores the role of planning in the deeply divided and politically polarized context of Jerusalem. The overall argument developed throughout the article is that the relation between planning and politics is a non-hierarchical set of interactions, negotiated within specific historical, geographical, legal and cultural contexts-in other words, orders don't come down from the politicians to be slavishly followed by planners. In this re…
Interventions in urban geopolitics
Contrasting Jerusalem: Contested urbanism at the crossroads
As far as the relation between planning and politics is concerned, Jerusalem represents an exceptional urban case to study. Jerusalem is a symbolic and tangible focal point in the Israeli Palestinian conflict, earning its position in urban studies and planning literature as one of the most ethno-nationally divided, polarized and contested cities (Bollens 2000; Klien 2001; Dumper 2014; Shlay and Rosen 2015). Competing religious and political narra…
Segregation, mobility and encounters in Jerusalem: The role of public transport infrastructure in connecting the ‘divided city’
This paper assesses ways in which urban segregation is shaped and transformed by Jerusalem’s public transport network, enhancing mobility and potential group encounters. We suggest that segregation should be understood as an issue of mobility and co-presence in public space, rather than the static residential-based segregation that continues to be a central focus of debate in urban studies. We explore public transport infrastructures, considering…
Geographies of violence in Jerusalem: The spatial logic of urban intergroup conflict
J erusalem
Jerusalem represents a rather exceptional urban case study because of its unique position as the global center of the three largest monotheistic religions since biblical times. Jerusalem is both a symbolic and a tangible focal point in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; and competing religious and political narratives have affected its development. This brief entry attempts to capture some of the main themes in Jerusalem's planning history over th…
Geographies of ethnic segregation in Stockholm: The role of mobility and co-presence in shaping the ‘diverse’ city
This article assesses how urban segregation and ethnic diversity in Stockholm have been shaped by spatial policy and migration trajectories over time. Much of the urban studies and planning literature defines segregation as a measure of residential mixing. In contrast, our research suggests that segregation could be understood as a lack of opportunities for interaction in public space. In the case of Stockholm, space syntax network analysis and t…
Polarizations, exclusionary neonationalisms and the city
Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities
This special issue explores geographies of peace in violently contested cities – cities where the socio-political order is contested by actors who use violence and repression to either challenge or reinforce the prevailing distribution of power and political, economic, and social control. The articles within the special issue theorise and explore where, when, how, and why urban conflicts manifest themselves in the context of contested cities. Tog…
Towards Urban Geopolitics of Encounter: Spatial Mixing in Contested Jerusalem
The extent to which ‘geographies of encounter’ facilitate tolerance of diversity and difference has long been a source of debate in urban studies and human geography scholarship. However, to date this contestation has focused primarily on hyper-diverse cities in the global north-west. Adapting this debate to the volatile conditions of the nationally-contested city, this paper explores intergroup encounters between Israelis and Palestinians in Jer…
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence
This introduction to the special section explores geopolitical dimensions of conflict and violence in cities, pointing at the need to continue learning from marginal urban settings. It broadens the scope across differentiated approaches, such as the francophone and anglophone urban geopolitical traditions. By opening up a wider perspective, the emphasis is not on cities as part of a matrix of global hierarchies of geographical power but on the mu…
Bringing nationalism into global urban studies
This critical commentary investigates the resurgence of nationalist politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that cities are critical arenas in which contemporary nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. While scholarship on nationalism, geopolitics and international relations remains largely state-centric, global urban studies has tended to treat cities as denationalised nodes embedded in transnational networks of…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)