The City-Logic of Resistance
Subverting Urbicide in the Middle East City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8109958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce H Stanley (University of East London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 10-24 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-7440 • E-ISSN: 1542-3166 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15423166.2017.1348251 |
| OpenAlex | W2769774336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 18 |
Most armed conflict today takes place within urban terrain or within an urbanised context. An extreme variant of such armed conflict is violence perpetrated by external state and non-state forces within the city, known as urbicide. Urbicidal violence deliberately strives to kill, discipline or deny the city to its inhabitants by targeting and then reordering the sociomaterial urban assemblage. Civil resistance within urbicidal violence seeks to subvert the emerging alternative sovereign order sought by such forces. It does so by using the inherent logic of the city in order to maintain/restore the community's social cohesion, mitigate the violence, affirm humanity, and claim the right to the city. This paper investigates the city-logic of civil resistance through examples drawn from the recent urbicidal experiences of Middle East cities such as Gaza, Aleppo, Mosul, and Sana'a. Theoretical insights from the conflict resolution literature, critical urban theory, and assemblage thinking inform the argument
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Geography · Humanity · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Public Spaces through Art
Confronting the Caliphate
Tracing Walkability Through Disruption Assemblages in Aleppo’s (Post‐)Conflict Historic Core
Spatial Entanglements of (In)Security and Violence
Faith, Community, and Resilience
Urbicide in Eastern Europe and the Middle East
Middle Eastern cities
Challenging the Linear Model of Peacebuilding Planning
Climate Change and Hybrid Warfare Strategies
Worlding austerity
Between 'flight' and 'fight
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |