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Geographies of violence in Jerusalem: The spatial logic of urban intergroup conflict

Rokem, Jonathan, Weiss, Chagai M., Miodownik, Dan (2018) Geographies of violence in Jerusalem: The spatial logic of urban intergroup conflict. Political Geography, 66 . pp. 88-97. ISSN 0962-6298. (doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.08.008) (KAR id:72037)

Abstract

This paper assesses how spatial configurations shape and transform individual and collective forms of urban violence, suggesting that geographies of urban violence should be understood as an issue of mobility. We document and map violent events in Jerusalem, assessing the possible impact of street patterns: segmenting populations, linking populations, and creating spaces for conflict between the city's Jewish and Palestinian populations. Using space syntax network analysis, we demonstrate that, in the case of Jerusalem, street connectivity is positively associated with individual violence yet negatively associated with collective violence. Our findings suggest that understanding the logic of urban intergroup violence requires us to pay close attention to local urban morphology and its impact on intergroup relations in ethnically divided and heterogeneous environments.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.08.008
Projects: Contested Urbanism
Uncontrolled keywords: Contested cities, Intergroup conflict, Jerusalem, Palestinian Israeli conflict, Political violence, Space syntax, Spatial violence, network analysis, political conflict, urban morphology, urban politics, violence, Israel, Jerusalem [Israel], Jerusalem [Jerusalem (DST)]
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Funders: [37325] UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User: Jonathan Rock
Date Deposited: 11 Feb 2019 18:21 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/72037 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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