Fragile Cities
A Critical Perspective on the Repertoire for New Urban Humanitarian Interventions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5858737 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manoela Miklos (0000-0003-0222-5417, San Tiago Dantas Postgraduate Programme in International Relations, Brazil), Tomaz Oliveira Paoliello (0000-0002-1217-4273, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 545-568 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contexto Internacional (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-8529 • E-ISSN: 1982-0240 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-8529.2017390300005 |
| OpenAlex | W2748411047 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0102-85292017000300545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
At the end of the 1990s, researchers involved in the debate on the new wars introduced discussion about the urban dimension of contemporary conflicts into the International Relations discipline. The innovative debate about urban fragility is one of the many lines of inquiry that emerge within the framework of the relationship between cities and contemporary conflicts. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the concept of 'fragile city' offers a new and relevant analytical framework for understanding contemporary urban violence and inequality. Moreover, this same concept could also be instrumental in making fragile cities the new locus of international humanitarianism. The notion of fragile city emerges to describe new emergency situations more closely linked to urban contexts than to national dynamics, as previously described in the literature on fragile states. The concept of fragile city is a groundbreaking tool for understanding the human consequences of inequality in urban settings, but might also be used as a rhetorical vehicle for the reproduction of old dynamics and the inauguration of new intervention practices in urban areas that were previously inaccessible to humanitarian action, especially cities in Latin America
Inequality · Latin Americans · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Psychological intervention · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |