Contesting the Divided City
Arts of Resistance in Skopje
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10963732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ophélie Véron (0000-0003-1388-0505, Department of Geography University College London London UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1441-1461 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antipode (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anti.12269 |
| OpenAlex | W2479941009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
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 constructed and used by hegemonic groups as a means of asserting their power and how, in turn, the city may be a place of resistance where power is contested and public space reappropriated. Drawing on Lefebvre's perspective on the production of space, I compare the conceived city to the lived city and examine how urban inhabitants may resist the division of the city and challenge hegemonic representations. I also draw on Debord's psychogeography to define an artistic, active and participatory approach to urban space through which the inhabitants may re‐conquer their right to the œuvre and to the city. I argue that the city as a lived environment may offer narratives other than division and that there are alternatives to the divided city
Aesthetics · Architectural engineering · Art · Citizen journalism · Hegemony · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public space · Resistance (ecology · Right to the city · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The arts · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Engineering · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
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The Ohrid Agreement
Henri Lefebvre
Sites of Social Centrality and Segregation
Race, Protest, and Public Space
The right to Belfast City Centre
For ethnography in political geography
The urbicide of Beirut? Geopolitics and the built environment in the Lebanese civil war (1975-1976)
Excavating Lefebvre
Cities in a World of Cities
Justice and the Spatial Imagination
Parallel politics
Sociological Work
Arts of urban exploration
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |