Conflict in Cities and the Contested State: Everyday Life and the Possibilities for Transformation in Belfast, Jerusalem and Other Divided Cities
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Architecture
Abstract
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Publications
Akram, Susan M.; Dumper, Michael; Lynk, Michael; Scobbie, Iain
(2010)
International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-based Approach to Middle East Peace
Allan Cochrane (author)
(1900)
Breaking down the walls of heartache : state spaces of division and unification in Berlin
Amneh Badran (author)
(1900)
The future of Jerusalem as envisioned by Israeli (Jewish) protest/'peace' groups
Anita Bakshi (Author)
(2011)
Nicosia's Buffer Zone - Topographies of Memory
Anita Bakshi (Author)
(2011)
Memory and place in divided Nicosia
in Spectrum : journal of global studies
Anita Bakshi (Author)
(2011)
Trade and exchange in Nicosia's common realm : Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950s
Anita Bakshi (Speaker)
(2010)
Heritage, myth, and nation building : Nicosia and other contested cities
Anita Bakshi (Speaker)
(2010)
Nicosia's buffer zone : topographies of memory
Anita Bakshi (Speaker)
(2010)
Divided cities : mythologies of place and nostalgic utopias
Bakshi A
(2012)
A shell of memory: The Cyprus conflict and Nicosia's walled city
in Memory Studies
| Title | Belfast Vignettes. |
| Description | As members of the 'Conflict in Cities' Research Project we have used a range of visual methods in our work: photography, video, photo elicitation and participant directed photography. Our research experience reveals the value of these visual methods not simply as a way of collecting 'data' but as a means of analysis, yet also highlights the need to be critically reflexive about their use. While researching how public displays of religion and the performance of religious practices in public space in Belfast helps fragment/demarcate or, conversely, renders public space 'shared', we made a short video on religion, identity and public space. In this presentation we use the video and a variety of photo images we have taken and collated in order to reflect and promote a discussion on the inherent complexities and contradictions in the mediating role of the 'digital gaze' in research; its capacity to shape the phenomenon being studied; to capture and explore performance in distinctive ways; and to engender new epistemological spaces for us as researchers. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Description | Increasingly, if one wants to understand ethno-national and religious conflicts, a focus on the urban condition is indispensable. Cities are critical sites for the assertion or erosion of state sovereignty, yet they are quite different to the nations that house them. Together, cities and states co-determine urban life, but emphasis and balance between the two shifts in many ways. Conflict in Cities (CinC) has identified a spectrum of geo-political contexts in Europe and the Middle East that have direct implications for the study of urban conflicts. Research in a number of contested cities has made it possible to learn from certain common themes, but also to compare key differences in the conflicts and urban situations. Ethno-national conflicts in cities tend not to have clear beginnings and ends, and therefore living with conflict over long periods becomes a fact of life for many people. It is important to understand not just the conflicts but also the cities themselves; a political solution without a long-term urban vision will not succeed. CinC research reveals a great deal with regard to how conflicts shape cities and, in turn, are shaped by them. What is the connection between divided cities and states? Cities are important as symbolic expressions of the material and ideological status of states, and so are critical stakes for ethno-national and religious conflict. The strategic importance of the geo-political frameworks in which cities are embedded serves to shape the intensity and scale of the urban ethno-national conflict and any attempts to resolve it. Ultimately, responses to conflict must be framed in terms of the processes which span urban, national and international levels. If there is any place in a state where diversity can be absorbed effectively it is the city, making it prime territory for seeking ways of understanding conflict; urban institutions must be exploited positively to this end. The density and structure of cities can create an arena for contest that is immediate and concrete; it may be dramatic at times, or else extremely repetitive as it reflects everyday life. Urban order - based upon centre and periphery, public and private, areas of mixed uses, activities and people - may be ruptured by conflict. At the same time, well -established urban structures and procedures help to reinforce the city against the worst abuses of conflict, or may aid in its rejuvenation. A balanced approach between local, municipal, regional, state and international levels is crucial. What makes a divided city? Ongoing conflict, with episodes of violence that are often but not always orchestrated, characterises a number of cities with ethno-national divides. This affects people's everyday lives in ways that include heavy, excessive or biased security measures and physical conflict infrastructures that cause problematic spatial divisions. Too often a range of fears, distrust and hatred limits people's ability to live in a way that is compatible with others unlike themselves. These factors can make the difference between populations mixing or not. Although we often use the term 'divided cities', the urban conditions are usually more complex than simple bilateral rifts. Populations themselves may be fractured into small groups and factions, whilst histories and local contexts can greatly affect conflicts and produce different manifestations of contestation. This is regularly seen in the physical divisions that vary with each urban situation. In some cases, cities may become fragmented into ethnic, religious or linguistic enclaves, bastions, domains, gated communities and zones. Nicosia is the classic 'half-half' divided city, but when Germany was also split in two, West Berlin was effectively isolated as an island; Jerusalem is increasingly fragmented with its juddering Separation Barrier and attempts to include the Israeli settlements and exclude the Palestinians; and Belfast is dotted with walls - referred to as 'peacelines' - that separate populations, mostly in its working class neighbourhoods. The situation in Kirkuk is fluid, with ethnic divisions increasingly defined by 'mother language schools' that separate its populations and may not correspond with the city's traditional quarters. And in Brussels, where the ethno-linguistic differences are sometimes declared 'unmappable', a complex system of legal rights and obligations exists between the urban region and its suburbs in Flanders. Why do boundaries become more extreme when cities are divided? Cities, by nature, are located where diverse peoples come together. It is relatively easy to divide a city, and in cases of severe violence and loss of life this may seem to be the best solution. However, temporary solutions - employing, for example, walls and buffer zones - often become permanent, and it is extremely difficult to reunite cities once they have been divided. This is partly because once inner city frontiers are introduced, the fundamental urban order of how people mix and how cities are structured is disrupted. Ultimately, management of conflict which involves the separation of populations can prevent or undermine resolution. The very experience of urban life may be ruptured, and in the long term divided cities do not flourish. CinC emphasises the value of policies and practices that discourage imposed separations, exclusions and divisions which prejudice the status of one group of people over another based upon their ethnicity or religion. How do conflict politics interact with the urban everyday? CinC research shows that people tend to interact more than they think. Sharing space may simply mean that people from either side of ethno-national or religious divides get to see each other, observe their customs, and hear their languages as they go about their lives. Slight as such contact may seem, it begins to open cracks in preconceived perceptions, whilst its absence can mean a reduced potential for improving relations in the future. Moreover, experience and memory of the spaces themselves create some form of common ground, even if little or no direct social interaction takes place. Mixing in contested cities can depend on people having mundane reasons to be together. Ease of access to necessary services and amenities is a key consideration for a functional city, and this can be frustrated when otherwise 'normal' features of urban life such as educational institutions and curricula, regeneration projects, religious institutions, and the provision of social services become segregated or hard to reach. Urban planning regimes can be crucial in this regard, and maintaining mobility is one of the key factors in overcoming fragmentation. Local participation in planning decisions can help to give people a stake in the rejuvenation of their cities and a role in addressing their conflicts. Biased political systems may manipulate schools and educational systems, including the location of schools, resource provision, and curricula. It is important that international policy makers give careful consideration to the partnerships they form, funding criteria, and the destination of support for educational provision. Wider conflicts can also affect practices in residential areas. 'Frontier urbanism' emerges when civilian groups are made to confront each other, and urban settings and structures are deliberately used to support these hostile encounters. What roles do external actors play in divided cities? International efforts in combination with local involvement may be able to channel funds and subvert politically biased and short-sighted plans. NGOs in conflicted urban centres, especially occupied cities, may take on particular importance. In Nicosia, the cooperation of local authorities or groups with international organisations and funders - with the conscious avoidance of partisan state authorities - has enabled an approach to regeneration that is much more sensitive to local needs. International religious groups can also be powerful actors in divided cities. In Jerusalem, the Islamic Movement has sought to restore al-Aqsa Mosque as a teaching and communal locus, and to revive the Old City, via religion and commerce, as a Palestinian political hub. Diaspora groups can also play a part in the politics and economy of divided cities, through funding and investment, tourism, driving up property prices, political lobbying, and supporting overly-romanticised cultural commemorations and heritage sites. Funded by American Jews, ideologically-motivated Israeli settlers in Jerusalem are involved in the development of religiously-inspired tourist sites such as the City of David, which serve to establish modern mythologies connected to these newly 'created' / 'discovered' religious sites. Weak states may become clients of stronger neighbour states. Often the battles are played out by confrontational groups in territorialised streets, but at another level the contest takes place in the redevelopment of the city. Many states support contending groups in Lebanon's Beirut and Tripoli, and the urban landscape becomes more highly fragmented when a weak state authority coexists with armed urban fiefdoms and unstable urban politics. How can cities play a role in reducing conflict? The prognosis for cities that experience extreme levels of ethno-national conflict is mixed. Often, the conditions that make them vulnerable also help to strengthen them. Cities are targeted by both internal and external forces, and the density of their populations and complexity of their systems make it very easy to injure them; we see this happen on a regular basis. Yet, it is precisely these qualities that produce a diverse and rich urban experience which fosters ways of dealing with challenges. These two extreme conditions - fragility and robustness - are integral to the urban condition and figure as significant factors of conflict resolution. The term 'post-conflict' can be vague and sometimes misleading, promising a 'quick fix', a clear end to conflict, and a swiftly transformed city. In most cases, the damage to cities over many years of urban conflict - physical, social, economic and political - is substantial. Even a negotiated solution, satisfactory to all, would not immediately repair the breakdown of coherence suffered by the city to allow the new peace to become a reality. Rather than focusing solely on either the management or resolution of conflict, we might consider which factors can lead to, if not the 'good city', then at least a viable city. The longevity of urban ethno-national conflicts is a reality. The implications of this are both pessimistic and optimistic: the former because there are rarely easy solutions supplied by a peace treaty or negotiated solution, and the latter because periods of violence are usually sporadic and need to be recognised as such. Any agreements made should not necessarily be voided by occasional outbreaks of physical hostility. Ongoing and extremely heavy violence manifested on the streets is usually organised by higher powers. Still, everyday urban practices are remarkably resilient. While resolution remains an ultimate goal, it is important to see it within the long term, with an emphasis upon policies and practices that take into account the requirements of not just a functional city, but one where the experience of urban life can be enjoyed. |
| Exploitation Route | The research of CinC can be used by policy advisors, urban planners, educators, engineers, religious authorities, heritage managers and military advisors when considering interventions in contested or divided cities. Our findings illuminate the long-term impact of infrastructure, urban planning, political boundaries and forms of space 'sharing' within contested cities. The research of CinC can be used by policy advisors, urban planners, educators, engineers, religious authorities, heritage managers and military advisors when considering interventions in contested or divided cities. Our findings illuminate the long-term impact of infrastructure, urban planning, political boundaries and forms of space 'sharing' within contested cities. The research can also be used by academics to further their understandings of cities, particularly those explored by the project. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
| URL | http://www.urbanconflicts.arct.cam.ac.uk |
| Description | UN Ankara-Pullan |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/D3BD4163D1C21B6785257CD70066A8AD |
| Description | UN Jakarta - Pullan |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/UNISPAL.NSF/47D4E277B48D9D3685256DDC00612265/AE52CF02DCC1EB3785257F1D... |
| Description | UNESCO 2015- Pullan |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Baillie visiting scholar at Netherlands Institute |
| Organisation | Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Britt Baillie will be a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in December 2012 as a guest of the Terrorscapes: Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Terror and Genocide in Postwar Europe Project. As part of her visit, she will be presenting recent work on Vukovar at a seminar on 11 December. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | 'At the boundaries of the sacred. The reinvention of_ everyday life in Jerusalem's al-Wad Street, Jerusalem' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This paper examines the changing role of al Wad Street |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | 'The Common Camp - Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-Political Instrument in Israel' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This research will critically examine the idea of the camp in relation to temporary settlements in Israel. Through theoretical explorations coupled with fieldwork this research will analyze how temporary environments were and still are being used by Israel as a flexible means of controlling land and population to pursue the government's territorial interests, while on the other hand camp residents are actively using their status as a platform for their ongoing spatio-political struggle. This dissertation argues that temporary living formed in various types of camps is a long-term part of Israeli policy on all sides of the political spectrum and that the camp is a central paradigm in the way the Israeli space is organized, managed and negotiated. Poster |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | 'The securitisation of education in the Iraqi disputed_ territories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | paper presented at: 'Education, Transition and Fragility' EXCEPS, University of Exeter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | (Re)collecting Mostar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This paper aims at presenting and critically engage with the results of the project "(Re)Collecting Mostar". The project started in November 2010 when a group working within the OKC Abraševi_ (Youth Cultural Centre Abraševi_), Abart, has been sponsored by MDG-F (Millennium Development Goals Fund) and Erste Stiftung to develop a collaborative project with students from the two universities of Mostar. On the one hand, the project aimed to critically analyse the situation of public space in Mostar and, on the other hand, to collect and creatively assemble public memories. The process of collecting memories is here understood as crucial in the creation of an archive where the often conflicting histories of Mostar could be gathered and rendered to re-place them in contemporary urban narratives. Further, assembling and creating objects able to materialise the immaterial space of memories could support the process of putting diverging and converging stories together in order to create an apt space that could contain them all, while symbolically re-attaching them to the city. Thus, this contribution aims at critically reflecting on the process of collecting memories in the peculiar case of a contested city. In particular, the extents to which objects could 'become tools for active collaboration and a sharing of authority' will be taken into account in relation with the political context of the city. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | A house divided |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited participant in roundtable discussion entitled: 'The Belfast Salon presents: A House Divided' in conjunction with Belfast Exposed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | A resource of memory : researching Nicosia's buffer zone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at City Seminar Workshop, CRASSH, University of Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Active Representation within the Power-sharing Society:_the Values guiding administrative decision-making in Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The management of conflict has long been of concern to social scientists, urban planners and community-minded citizens. While differing mechanisms of managing ethno-national or ethno-linguistic tensions exist, few studies advance our understanding of how conflicts are actually managed - in other words, the study of ethnic peace. In this study I draw on the experiences of two differing examples of ethnic peace: Belfast and Brussels in the expectation that other contested cities such as Kirkuk, Jerusalem, Nicosia or Mostar, who may one day consider power-sharing as a form of governance, may learn from what have been categorised as sites of successful power-sharing. While there are few studies of ethnic peace, fewer studies again seek to understand the role of the elite level bureaucrat in sustaining this peace. This dissertation fills this gap in the literature, investigating the politician-bureaucrat relationship within the contested urban environment of two differing mechanisms of consociationalism. The dissertation ascertains the extent of discretion available to the bureaucratic elite and further, through determining core beliefs of interviewees, establishes how this discretion is employed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Active representation within the power-sharing society: the values guiding administrative decision-making in Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The management of conflict has long been of concern to social scientists, urban planners and community-minded citizens. While differing mechanisms of managing ethno-national or ethno-linguistic tensions exist, few studies advance our understanding of how conflicts are actually managed - in other words, the study of ethnic peace. In this study I draw on the experiences of two differing examples of ethnic peace: Belfast and Brussels in the expectation that other contested cities such as Kirkuk, Jerusalem, Nicosia or Mostar, who may one day consider power-sharing as a form of governance, may learn from what have been categorised as sites of successful power-sharing. While there are few studies of ethnic peace, fewer studies again seek to understand the role of the elite level bureaucrat in sustaining this peace. This research fills this gap in the literature, investigating the politician bureaucrat relationship within the contested urban environment of two differing mechanisms of consociationalism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Africa@Zion : a genealogy of moral geographies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of Centre for Jewish Studies Evening Lecture Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Balkans - heritage and conservation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Beirut - interviewing politicians and bureaucrats |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Beirut interviews on the street |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Belfast : divided and shared city |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to Masters course Northern Ireland: Conflict and Change. Lecture drawing on researchers' work for the CinC Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Belfast : divided and shared city |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to Masters course Northern Ireland: Conflict and Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Belfast beyond the troubles : the future of ethno-national division in the consumerist city |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Belfast in transition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture for M.A. Module 'Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland: Sociological Perspectives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Belfast's Future? Key Research Findings from the 'Conflict in Cities' Research Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | The Conflict in Cities Belfast team held half a day seminar at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, QUB to mark the end of the Project. The seminar aimed at feeding some of the project findings back to people who have aided or participated in the research which took place in Belfast. Over 40 academics, policy makers, community workers, civil servants and planners were invited. Around 20 attended. A number of invitees were unable to attend because of inclement weather conditions. The Project team will be providing individual feedback to those who were unable to attend. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Blog on Saferworld on ''Just cities: the role of public space and everyday life' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Part of a series of blogs on 'Justice and Peace', culminating in a one day workshop in the Hague Institute for Global justice. Intended to bring together a verity of disciplines on the questions of security and justice in public space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.saferworld.org.uk/news-and-views/blog-post/27-just-cities-the-role-of-public-space-and-ev... |
| Description | Bombing the Israeli Separation Barrier: Graffiti tags and_art attacks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This workshop focuses on different understandings and forms of resistance practiced in and for Palestine. Mainstream literature on the Israel/Palestine conflict has often focused on formal politics and avenues of participation while scarce attention has been devoted to cultural politics. This is despite the fact that cultural politics functions as a crucial site of political expression aimed at constructing and deploying ethnicised, racialised, nationalised, religious, class, gendered, and other collective identities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Book Launch: 'Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research Associate Craig Larkin (currently Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at King's College London) will host an event to launch his recently published book Memory and Conflict in Lebanon (Routledge, 2012) which deals with the issues of transgenerational memory, trauma and violence in the aftermath of civil war. The evening will begin with a few introductory words by Professor Michael Kerr, a brief overview of the book by Dr Larkin, open questions, book signing and a drinks reception. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Building peace across borders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Katy Hayward, lecturer in Sociology, spoke at the launch of Paix sans frontières, a themed issue of the journal Accord (International Review of Peace Initiatives), in the Houses of Parliament. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Cambridge Heritage Fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CinC Research Associate Britt Baillie will present and overview of CinC's heritage research at the Cambridge Heritage Fair, McDonald Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 10 October 4:30. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Capturing Facades: Structural Violence and the (re)Construction of Vukovar's Churches |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The destruction of Vukovar's churches did not end with the cessation of armed conflict. The 'conflict time' which followed the siege has been marked by competitive construction and reconstruction; strategic demolition and neglect; symbolic/facade 'neutralization' and structural violence towards (shifting) minority religious buildings. These processes enabled the continuation of war by other means in a desecularised post-socialist city. Increasingly, Catholic sacred symbols have extended beyond the church walls-in which they had been contained by Tito-into what was once 'shared space'. In contrast, Orthodox practices remain limited to interior 'private' spaces. This paper questions why Vukovar's churches became flashpoints of 'violence'. It seeks to break down the binary model of syncretic religious practices/violent division. Finally, it ponders the role of religious structures on the urban periphery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Capturing urban conflicts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESRC Festival of Social Science, Department of Architecture, London Metropolitan University Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Change and difference in state/city relations : 'normal' and 'divided' cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Carroll Visiting Professor Public Lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Chronocentrism and remembrance as resistance: the Dudik memorial complex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Memorials are chronocentric - expressing the values and historical 'verdicts' that characterize the moment at which they were erected. As time passes, new meanings can be projected onto them and/or their permanence allows them to become absorbed as unobtrusive - 'forgotten' elements in the (built) landscape. However, in instances of massive societal change, memorials can become viewed as the detritus of past regimes or simply as objects which no longer 'fit' in the new socio-political landscape. This paper explores the biography of the Dudik memorial complex. In a city which underwent ethnic cleansing and 'Peaceful Reintegration', this memorial has been hallowed, rejected, used as a symbol of reconciliation and as a site of resistance. Its status of a 'memorial in flux' continues to challenge local conceptions of heritage and contemporary political narratives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Civil society on the EU's external borders : a conceptual minefield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address at 40th Anniversary Conference of the University of Joensuu, Finland, entitled 'Europe beyond East-West Division' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Colonial urbanism : forging national identities in the building of Jerusalem's New City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Conflict in cities workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.conflictincities.org/newsandeventsWS08.html |
| Description | Comparative mapping |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Comparative mapping |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture given at Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Conflict in Cities Peace One Day Parkside |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | CinC Research Associate Britt Baillie presented and overview of CinC's research and ran two workshops for over 50 14-18 year olds at Parkside Community College (see this link for coverage in their newsletter) and Cottenham School on 24 and 25 September 2012 as part of the UN's Peace One Day initiative. In addition, Dr. Baillie served as a judge at a debate competition hosted by Hills Road College at which teams from six Cambridge colleges probed questions to do with peace. Dr. Baillie was invited present and participate in these events by the South Cambridge Rotary Club. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Conflict in _cities : the contribution of the architectural research to urban studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Visiting Lecturer Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Conflict in cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Overview of project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Conflict in cities and fieldwork opportunities with IPCC in Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to architecture undergraduate students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Conflict in contested space: Parading, protesting and observing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC session entitled 'Researching Conflict in Contested Urban Space' session at the Sociological Association of Ireland Conference, National University of Maynooth Ireland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Conflict in contested space:_Parading, protesting and observing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Conflict in contested space:_Parading, protesting and observing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Conflicting pasts and contested sites : the politics of archaeology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation/Lecture to 30 students (aged under 18) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Confronting Lebanon's 'war of others' : trans-generational forgiveness and peace-building amongst Lebanese youth |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at 'Fratricide & fraternite : understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity', part of the Mellon Sawyer seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/HumanRightsConsortium/fratricide_online.pdf |
| Description | Conservation in the city : the politics of the past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Socio-political issues in architecture and urbanism |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Contested spaces : witness, memory, affect |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a joint PhD seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://phd.hum.ku.dk/Cultlitart/courses/contestedspaces/ |
| Description | Core dilemmas : reconstructing Vukovar's historic centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at City Seminar Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Counterfeit Citizenship. On the database as political form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research findings at the conference 'Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship', Open University, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Counting versus Narration. On the database as political form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Inverted Worlds questions arenas and manifestations of cultural change effective in the eventful outbursts of the Arab spring. Four panels will open debates on regional and cross-cultural aspects of Cultural Motion in the Arab Region. In Sound Messages: Popular Music and Social and Political Transformation the focus will be on the "air" of the Arab spring, asking what musicians of the young generation have set out to fight for. Hip Hop, Palestinian electro, pop and protest chants all feature in this dynamic panel. Linear and non-Linear Narratives in the Context of Arab Revolutions brings together leading researchers, artists and activists to debate new media's fluidity in relation to current revolutions, including new media authority Lev Manovich and local intellectuals such as Hassan Choubassi and al-Safir's Sahar Mandour. The inception, execution and effect of the Arab spring will be discussed in Open Rebellion; Hidden Scripts by academics and activists from Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Serbia, the Netherlands and Lebanon. Humour, Suffering and Resistance illustrates the various roles of humour in coping with political, social and cultural oppression. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Cultural capital for all? : the case of Tel Aviv Jaffa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Defining the borders: Heritage and the making of_the 'New' Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The battle for land(scape) and territorial control is a key element in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the struggle for Jerusalem. In this paper, I trace how the construction of the separation barrier has remodeled south Jerusalem's landscape. I focus on the impact of the 'Wall' on the archaeologically rich and environmentally sensitive Refaim Valley--the breadbasket of Jerusalem. Here, environmental and heritage discourses are being used to legitimize the transformation of the valley from a Palestinian agricultural resource to and Israeli 'Biblical landscape' conservation area. In turn, this work examines the Palestinian co-option of the preservationist discourse as a strategy of resistance. Two opposing approaches to heritage management will be explored through this paper: the Conventional Approach (CA) and the Living Heritage Approach (LHA. The former, a Western model frequently used by colonial powers, focuses on the preservation and conservation of 'safely dead' heritage. Indeed, when employed, it seeks to protect heritage by disengaging it from all active uses other than tourism and scholarship. The LHA has been developed in response to the CA in circumstances where the model does not recognize the continuity between the past and present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Discourses on peace-building in post-conflict Northern Ireland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture for M.A. Module 'Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland: Sociological Perspectives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Divided Nicosia's walled city - a shell of memory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Essay Competition by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation. Eleventh Berlin Roundtables of Transnationality. Memory Politics : Education, Memorials, and Mass Media |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Final Conflict in Cities Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The final Conflict in Cities Workshop was held on the 9-11th July 2012 at the University of Exeter. The Workshop brought together Belfast, Cambridge and Exeter teams to present and discuss preliminary research findings. Eight sessions over two days explored 27 thematic reports under the headings of: conflict and interfaces; shared space, demography and visual methods; memories and commemorations; religion and holy places; Urban Reconstruction; and conflict management, resolution, transcendence. The workshop was concluded with a roundtable discussion led and chaired by Professor Alan Cochrane (Open University). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Findings of CinC research_ on young people's attitudes to peace walls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar on the findings of CinC research_on young people's attitudes to peace walls, to MLAs, Committee Clerks and_Research Assembly Staff at Stormont. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Five urban narratives : in search for post-conflict Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given to Urban/suburban studies: spectacle, space and identity in everyday life research cluster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Forgotten' War and Occupation Heritage: Shedding Light on the Darkness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The Second World War was a period of extreme strife endured by the citizens of Europe and yet many of the terrorscapes that it left behind have been forgotten or ignored. This workshop seeks to explore and highlight these sites, asking which legacies of war and occupation are valued and turned into heritage and which are ignored and why? We will also ask what the impact has been of the amnesia surrounding them (wilful or otherwise), coupled with a lack of heritagisation, on collective memory, identity, and perception of local landscape. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | From urban divisions to creeping apartheid : gray space and ethno-class relations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC Workshop 3: 'Jerusalem and Other Contested Cities' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Frontier urbanism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a 'Division and connection in contested space' seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/urban_worlds/events/archive/events_archive_full_2009_2010/?eventno=85... |
| Description | Gender and public space in Belfast city centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to visiting students from Georgia State University (US) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Hanging out in Belfast: Teens transforming territory', |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | 'Hanging out in Belfast: Teens transforming territory', Conference Celebrating Childhood Diversity, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, University of Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Healing old wounds in cities of conflict |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Wendy Pullan & James Anderson quoted in 'Healing Old Wounds in Cities of Conflict' - a Financial Times special report by Simon Kuper. Financial times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.ft.com/cities |
| Description | How is Northern Ireland dealing with the stresses of the post-conflict society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture given to a visiting delegation from the Royal College of Defence Studies, at Queen's University Belfast (in conjunction with representatives of the Schools of Politics and Psychology, QUB) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | How should social sciences relate to public policy? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Irish Social Sciences Annual Conference, entitled 'Social Science Research and Policy Making: Bridging the Divide' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | I _ Mostar : sensibilities of daily drifting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a 'Conflict in cities' graduate workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/conflictincities/PDFs/CinC-Graduate-Workshop.pdf |
| Description | Infrastructural Power, Cross-border Governance and the Ambiguities of State Borders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Cross-border governance has become increasingly relevant for academics and policy makers recently. An enormous literature has documented the de-bordering and rebordering of Europe, resul ng from the simultaneous prolifera on of ins tu onal rela onships and re-emergence of na on-state building processes. The objec ve of this interna onal conference is to explore what is s ll unknown about cross-border governance for the last two decades. By bringing together poli cal scien sts, geographers and planners, the conference will open the black box of governance. Rather than focus on inputs and outputs, functions and flows we are interested in how networks, identities and competition influence the governance of these regions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Islamic resistance within Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the international relations speakers series at the University of Plymouth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Jerusalem - case study at Damascus Gate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Jerusalem in conflict : frontier urbanism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator Dr Wendy Pullan, Director of the Martin Centre for Research, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge & Co-Investigator Professor Michael Dumper, Politics Department, University of Exeter will give an illustrated talk on their research findings, before discussing the key implications with the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.city.ac.uk/blogs/city-alumni/2010/11/17/the-olive-tree-middle-east-forum/ |
| Description | Jerusalem the cost of failure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Landscaping Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Dr Britt Baillie, Research Associate in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, will share recent Conflict in Cities and the Contested State research which explores the role of heritage in landscaping the contested city of Jerusalem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Lecture to RIBA members on 'Architecture and Urban Conflict: How do they connect?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on cities that experience very high levels of conflict to show architects and planners how the built environment plays a role in urban conflict, reconstruction, risk, security. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Leonard : a little bit of history and a lot of opinion : biased authenticity in Belfast and Nicosia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Seminar Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Look and tell: Using photo prompts to_understand teenagers' perceptions and experiences of the city |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Recent research in geography and sociology illuminate the myriad ways in which young people's daily lives are influenced by and impact on their surrounding environment. While young people often occupy shared spaces with adults, they often modify adult meanings of place through their interactions with daily environments. Young people's identities are often constituted in and through particular spaces. Documenting young people's perception and use of their everyday environments is an essential component to comprehending how cities position young people and how in turn they respond to this positioning. The purpose of this paper is to explore and illuminate how young people make use of and relate to public space in Belfast through presenting their written and verbal responses to a series of pictorial images representing 'old and new' Belfast. The paper will illuminate the value of using visual prompts in research and how the method combined with interviews produced more complex and messy understandings of the meaning of space and place in the daily lives of teenagers growing up in Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Manipulating sacred space and histories in contested Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Visual Cognition, Space, Memory: the Sense of Place between Experience and Culture, Interdisciplinary Workshop, Dipartimento di Discipline della _Comunicazione and TraMe - Centro studi su memorie e traumi culturali, University of Bologna |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Mapping the void |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture given at Intermediate Studio 13 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Memorials and 'Conflict-time' in the Contested City of Vukovar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | In contested or divided cities, history and heritage are manipulated and selectively mined to serve exclusivist claims to rights and territory. There is a tendency for each side to see it's 'own truth' as 'THE' truth. The term 'post-conflict' is a misnomer often applied to these cities-conflating the cessation of armed violence (although not structural violence) with 'peacetime'. Yet, in contested cities ethnic divisions persist and tensions continue to run high. Here, a meaningful sense of 'peacetime' remains elusive-instead the city lingers in the limbo of 'conflict-time'-a term defined not by the presence or absence of violence but rather by an on-going sense of heightened unease and contestation. Recent experiences of violence, ethnic cleansing and incarceration make the 'frontlines' between different memory discourses even more entrenched. The Council of Europe stresses that the teaching of history should 'play a fundamental role in the promotion of fundamental values, such as tolerance, mutual understanding, human rights and democracy' (2001:2). Unlike juridical processes, truth and reconciliation programmes and other mechanism for addressing the past which are subject to public scrutiny, Croatia-like most other nations-has not developed analogous expectations for memorialisation (Brett,et al 2008:2). Memorial sites are not obliged to take into account alternative discourses, to serve the needs of the minority 'public' or to adhere to any code of conduct. This paper will portray how memorials in Vukovar have been used to provide a sense of justice for the 'In' group whilst reifying the differences between ethnic groups. It will explore how (in future) collective memory could be used to assist the individualization of guilt and to move beyond the dichotomized 'perpetrator'/'victim' framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Memorials and 'conflict-time' in the contested city of Vukovar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | "In contested or divided cities, history and heritage are manipulated and selectively mined to serve exclusivist claims to rights and territory. There is a tendency for each side to see it's 'own truth' as 'THE' truth. The term 'post-conflict' is a misnomer often applied to these cities-conflating the cessation of armed violence (although not structural violence) with 'peacetime'. Yet, in contested cities ethnic divisions persist and tensions continue to run high. Here, a meaningful sense of 'peacetime' remains elusive-instead the city lingers in the limbo of 'conflict-time'-a term defined not by the presence or absence of violence but rather by an on-going sense of heightened unease and contestation. Recent experiences of violence, ethnic cleansing and incarceration make the 'frontlines' between different memory discourses even more entrenched. The Council of Europe stresses that the teaching of history should 'play a fundamental role in the promotion of fundamental values, such as tolerance, mutual understanding, human rights and democracy' (2001:2). Unlike juridical processes, truth and reconciliation programmes and other mechanism for addressing the past which are subject to public scrutiny, Croatia-like most other nations-has not developed analogous expectations for memorialisation (Brett,et al 2008:2). Memorial sites are not obliged to take into account alternative discourses, to serve the needs of the minority 'public' or to adhere to any code of conduct. This paper will portray how memorials in Vukovar have been used to provide a sense of justice for the 'In' group whilst reifying the differences between ethnic groups. It will explore how (in future) collective memory could be used to assist the individualization of guilt and to move beyond the dichotomized 'perpetrator'/'victim' framework." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Memory Overlay: Forgetting Vukovar's Second World War Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | From 1944-1945, Vukovar laid only kilometres away from the Sremski Front where the Germans along with the Ustashe allies dug in against Tito's Partisans who were supported by the Red Army and Bulgarian troops. During this time, the city was under the control of Ustashe units which sent Vukovar's Jewish population to concentration camps, destroyed nearby Orthodox churches and ordered forced conversions or expulsion of Serbs. The city's Ustashe Martial Court used the site of Dudik, on the edge of the city, from 1941 to 1943 as an execution ground where 455 Partisans and resisters (predominantly Serbs) were put to death. After the war, Vukovar was chosen as the final resting place for Russian and Bulgarian war dead whose interment was memorialised. In the 1980s, Bogdan Bogdanovic created a memorial park at Dudik to remember its dead. Vukovar was demographically remade as a 'Brotherhood and Unity' city in which Croats bore the burden of collective 'perpetrator' status. This paper explores how the traumascape created by the siege of the city in 1991 has overlayed the city's Second World War memoryscape. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Memory and Landscape in Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on the politics of World Heritage Sites in Israel and Palestine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Memory, planning and space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented at book launch Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Narratives of post-conflict Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given for Queen's University Belfast's School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | National Rifts in Urban Conflicts: The Spatial Discontinuities of Frontiers, Walls and Buffer Zones |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Wendy Pullan will give a keynote paper entitled: ' Walls and Buffer Zones: Spatial Discontinuities in Urban Conflicts' at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) - Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries at the London School of Economics, 27 - 29 March 2012. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Nicosia : layers of absence and presence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In an exhibition entitled 'Artists at the H4C - tales | rumours | frictions | reflections' at the Home for Cooperation in the Buffer Zone in Nicosia Event hosted by Home for Cooperation, Buffer Zone, Nicosia, Cyprus Event hosted by Home for Cooperation, Buffer Zone, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.conflictincities.org/PDFs/lo-res-H4C-opening-exhibit.pdf |
| Description | Nicosia mapping and interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Assessing the centre of historic Baghdad Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Nicosia: Topographies of Memory EU Programme Support Office |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The exhibition brings to life the vibrant atmosphere of the Ermou Street marketplace, now enclosed within the Buffer Zone, where shopkeepers from all communities of Cyprus once came together. The exhibition brings to life the vibrant atmosphere of the Ermou Street marketplace, now enclosed within the Buffer Zone, where shopkeepers from all communities of Cyprus once came together. The exhibition brings to life the vibrant atmosphere of the Ermou Street marketplace, now enclosed within the Buffer Zone, where shopkeepers from all communities of Cyprus once came together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Nicosia: Topographies of Memory Home for Cooperation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Anita Bakshi organized an exhibition of maps, drawings, and narratives from her PhD research, entitled Nicosia: Topographies of Memory. The exhibition was shown in Nicosia, Cyprus at the Home for Cooperation from 28 June to 30 September 2012. It was financed by the European Union and co-hosted by the UNDP Partnership for the Future and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Panel on urban justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Day long workshop hosted by the Hague Institute for Global Justice and Saferworld to consider the relationship between cities, law and security. Follow up with NGOs and Government Departments from my blog on Saferworld: 'Just Cities' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Peace One Day Cottenham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | CinC Research Associate Britt Baillie presented and overview of CinC's research and ran two workshops for over 50 14-18 year olds at Parkside Community College (see this link for coverage in their newsletter) and Cottenham School on 24 and 25 September 2012 as part of the UN's Peace One Day initiative. In addition, Dr. Baillie served as a judge at a debate competition hosted by Hills Road College at which teams from six Cambridge colleges probed questions to do with peace. Dr. Baillie was invited present and participate in these events by the South Cambridge Rotary Club. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Phonic FM interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wendy Pullan and Britt Baillie were interviewed by Phonic FM on 9 November 2012 about the project's findings. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Planning the divide : Jerusalem masterplan 2020 : a political engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC Workshop 3: 'Jerusalem and Other Contested Cities' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Plenary session : policy-relevant social science : researching divided cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | ISSP Summer school 2010: Participation, Praxis and Policy: Understanding and Contributing to Society and Economy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/events/isspsummerschool/ISSP_Summer_School_Programme.doc |
| Description | Policy Panel Discussion: Policies and Progress on Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Theme: Policies and Progress in Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland Cities On Day 1 of the Conference, the first plenary session will be a Policy Panel organised and sponsored by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (CRC) www.community- relations.org.uk. The CRC is an independent company and registered charity set up in 1990 to promote better community relations between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland and equally to promote recognition of cultural diversity. Contributors to the CRC panel will include: Tony McCusker, Panel chair and Chair of Northern Ireland Community Relations Council Michael Culbert, Director, Coiste na n-Iarchimí (the network for Republican ex-prisoners) Billy Hutchinson, Community Worker, Mount Vernon, North Belfast and formerly Progressive Unionist Party representative in Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Assembly Roisin McDonough, Chief Executive, Arts Council of Northern Ireland Mary McKee, Strategic Investment Board, Northern Ireland and Director of Social Regeneration on the Maze Long Kesh Programme Delivery Unit Peter McNaney, Chief Executive of Belfast City Council Duncan Morrow, Chief Executive of Northern Ireland Community Relations Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Politics of the Past in Contested Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC Research Associate Britt Baillie presented a lecture for the University's 'Inspiring Ideas' event which is part of the build up to the 2012 Festival of Ideas. Dr. Baillie's lecture 'Politics of the Past in Contested Cities' was covered in a news story on the university's website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Power and resistance in Israeli cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar at the Department of Geography |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Problematic patrimony : the role of an 'obsolete' memorial in Vukovar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Monuments are chronocentric-expressing the values and historical 'verdicts' that characterize the moment at which they were erected. As time passes, new meanings can be projected onto them and/or their permanence allows them to become absorbed as unobtrusive-'forgotten' elements in the (built) landscape. However, in instances of massive societal change, monuments can become viewed as the detritus of past regimes or simply as objects which no longer 'fit' in the new socio-political landscape. This paper explores the biographies of Vukovar's Partisan monuments since the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. In a city which underwent ethnic cleansing and 'Peaceful Reintegration' these monuments have been hallowed, rejected, used as a symbols of reconciliation and sites of resistance. Their status of 'monuments in flux' continues to challenge both local conceptions of heritage and contemporary political narratives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Producing Mostar: A Lefebvrian Investigation of a Contested City. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Producing Mostar. A Lefebvrian Investigation of a Contested City |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Pullan and Sternberg to present CinC work at the Hay Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pullan and Sternberg will present CinC work at a public event entitled: 'Urban Conflicts'' as part of the Hay Festival's Cambridge Series. They will be joined by Sara Silvestri and Saskia Sassens to discuss the changing nature of urban violence, from the streets of Jerusalem to the avenues of Toulouse. Cities are becoming sites for a whole range of new types of violence and being extensively targeted in armed conflicts. The speakers will question how can we reduce the risk of violence. The event will take place on 1 June, 6:30, big tent. To book tickets please visit the Hay Festival's booking page. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Q methodology as a tool for comparative public administration research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Methodology workshop for PhD students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Re-inventing Belfast? : alternative ways of re-imagining and experiencing the city |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Rebordering Jerusalem: Landscaping through World Heritage and the Wall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The battle for land(scape) and territorial control are key elements in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the struggle for Jerusalem. In this paper, I trace how the construction of the separation barrier has remodeled south Jerusalem's landscape. I focus on the impact of the 'Wall' on the archaeologically rich and environmentally sensitive Refaim Valley--the breadbasket of Jerusalem. Here, environmental and heritage discourses are being used to legitimize the transformation of the valley from a Palestinian agricultural resource to and Israeli 'Biblical landscape' conservation area. In turn, this work examines the Palestinian co-option of the preservationist discourse as a strategy of resistance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Religion, Violence and Cities' Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | An international, interdisciplinary symposium on the theme 'Religion, Violence and Cities' will take place in Queen's University, Belfast on 28th and 29th May 2012. The symposium will frame the interdisciplinary research on the role of religion in Belfast and Jerusalem in a much wider comparative framework. It will include contributions from Project members Prof. Liam O'Dowd, Dr Martina McKnight and Dr. Wendy Pullan, Dr. Britt Baillie as well as a number of key scholars including Prof. Robert Hayden, University of Pittsburgh, Prof John Eade, Roehampton University London, Prof. Ian Reader, University of Manchester, Prof. Nezar AlSayyad, University of California Berkeley and Dr. Colette Harris, University of East Anglia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Research in Urban Conflicts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The March 10/11 event - Cambridge in Sharjah: Perspectives on Middle Eastern Studies - is the latest attempt to foster new dialogues, partnerships and knowledge exchange beyond the boundaries of Cambridge after previous Centre visits to Sarajevo, Morocco and China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Researching Conflict in_ Contested Urban Space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC session entitled 'Researching Conflict in _Contested Urban Space' session at the Sociological Association of Ireland_ Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Researching Conflict in_Contested Urban Space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC session entitled 'Researching Conflict in _Contested Urban Space' session at the Sociological Association of Ireland_ Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Researching young people's perception of Peace _Walls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Belfast has slowly been making the transition from a city of 'the troubles' to a postconflict city. This is reflected in the city centre landscape in particular which has seen a influx of investment reflected in the new apartment blocks, shops and offices which continue to dominate the terrain creating a sense of optimism that Belfast has left its tortured history behind. Yet despite the proliferation of new buildings, many residential parts of the city remain unchanged. In particular, the historical legacy of segregated housing presents a stark reminder of the city's uneasy past |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Resistance as an urban phenomenon in Palestinian Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC Workshop: Everyday Life |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Roundtable contributions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | roundtable contributions at Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster in Jordanstown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Sacred frontiers : the reinvention of everyday life in Jerusalem's Old City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This talk is part of the University of Cambridge Department of Sociology seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/26709 |
| Description | Security in cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | A one-day workshop on Security in Cities was in convened London as part of RCUK's Global Uncertainties Programme of which Conflict in Cities is a member. Wendy Pullan was chair and Mick Dumper joined the multi-disciplinary delegates. It was held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, with participation by members of their Future Cities unit, 6 May 2009 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Shared space and intellectual identity formation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Shared space in Jerusalem? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a 'Division and connection in contested space' seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/urban_worlds/events/archive/events_archive_full_2009_2010/?eventno=85... |
| Description | Some observations on the space of contested cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Spatial discontinuities in Jerusalem and other contested cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture at Globalisation and the Transformation of Europe's Borders, NORFACE seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Spatial discontinuities in contested Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Conference entitled 'Enclaving Identity: Remaking Borders in the Circum Mediterranean' at Robert Schuman Centre, The European University, Florence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Spatial discontinuities in contested cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on socio-political issues in architecture and urbanism |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Spatiality and the everyday lives of teenagers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | European Sociological Association, Research Network 4, Mid Term Symposium on_Theorising Childhood, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Structural transformation, regeneration and the sharing of Belfast : a case studies approach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Territoriality and urban space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Social Divisions and Social Conflict Research Cluster, at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | The Dudik Memorial Complex: Heritage as 'Resistance' in a Contested City' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | During periods of massive societal change, memorials can become viewed as the detritus of past regimes or simply as objects which no longer 'fit' in the new socio-political landscape. This paper explores the biography of the Dudik memorial complex in Vukovar, Croatia. Commemorating crimes committed during the Second World War, this memorial has been hallowed, rejected, used as a symbol of reconciliation and as a site of resistance. Its status of a 'memorial in flux' continues to challenge local conceptions of heritage and contemporary political narratives. From 1941 to 1943 the area of Dudik served as an execution ground where Partisans and resisters (predominantly Serbs) were put to death by Croat forces. In 1980 Bogdan Bogdanovi_ designed and erected a memorial complex at the site. Dudik became one of the city's key sites of mourning and commemoration; serving as a warning against the ills of fascism and encouraging the ideals of 'Brotherhood and Unity'. In 1991, the three-month siege of Vukovar-the harbinger of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia-coupled with the ethnic cleansing of local Croats, produced a new set of victims. Their commemoration has become a national priority resulting in a proliferation of new 'Homeland War' memorial sites. As the 'martyrdom' of the city and its Croat population has become a dominant narrative, there is no longer 'room' for the dead of Dudik in popular public practices of mourning. Their deaths have been eclipsed by the overriding concentration on new memorials. However, a contingent of local people is unwilling to allow the war-damaged Dudik complex to fade into obscurity. Today, this group is calling for the memorial complex to be restored. In this ethnically divided city, the proposed project challenges the political status quo and highlights the fragility of memorials as permanent loci of commemoration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The Politics of Glitter: Radicalised Shopping in Jerusalem's Old City' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The March 10/11 event - Cambridge in Sharjah: Perspectives on Middle Eastern Studies - is the latest attempt to foster new dialogues, partnerships and knowledge exchange beyond the boundaries of Cambridge after previous Centre visits to Sarajevo, Morocco and China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | The Spacio-Politics of Urban Conflicts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The Department of Architecture and Interior Design is organizing a lecture entitled "The Spacio-Politics of Urban Conflicts" conducted by Dr. Wendy Pullan. WENDY PULLAN is senior lecturer in history and philosophy of architecture and director of the Martin Centre at the University of Cambridge. She is principal investigator for 'Conflict in Cities and the Contested State', and from 2003 to 2007, directed the ESRC funded 'Conflict in Cities: Architecture and Urban Order in Divided Jerusalem', upon which the present project is built. In 2006, Dr Pullan received the Royal Institute of British Architects ' inaugural President's Award for University Led Research for work on Conflict in Cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | The digital eye in conflict_management: Reflections on doing research in a contested city |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | In this paper we reflect on our experiences with using visual research methods in the observations of an Orange Order parade and a nationalist protest in June 2011 and 2012. Building on Sarah Pink's (2008a, 2008b and 2009) understanding of visual ethnography as 'place-making', we show how the shared (between researchers and participants) practice of using photography and video during contentious parades and protests in Belfast becomes a means of engaging with place and a tool in its collaborative production. We suggest that participants' use of digital photography and video (marchers and protesters alike) has become integral to the repertoire of conflict and of its management in the city, serving as a tool in the process of transient (re)production of contested urban space. Our own use of digital photo and video in the research enables a deeper understanding of how contested space is reproduced through performance and generates reflexivity about our role in this process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The geopolitics of neighbouring |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of Socio-political issues in architecture and urbanism, CinC lecture course |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | The geopolitics of neighbouring |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Socio-political issues in architecture and urbanism', CinC lecture course |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | The politics of glitter : radicalized shopping in Jerusalem's markets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Visual Topographies of Distrust Workshop, Global Uncertainties Programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The rise of an Islamist movement in a Zionist _state: the Islamic movement within Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The workshop will bring together IR staff from Streaatham and Tremough to address the broad research theme of 'activist politics The workshop will be followed by a departmental seminar given by visiting speaker Andreas Kalyvas (New School) on 'The conceptual, political, and historical origins of the constituent power and its intimate relationship to democracy' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The rise of an Islamist movement in a Zionist state: the Islamic movement within Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | 'The rise of an Islamist movement in a Zionist state: the Islamic movement within Jerusalem,' IR Workshop 'Constituent Power in World Politics', University of Exeter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The rise of an Islamist movement in a Zionist_state: the Islamic movement within Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The workshop will bring together IR staff from Streaatham and Tremough to address the broad research theme of 'activist politics The workshop will be followed by a departmental seminar given by visiting speaker Andreas Kalyvas (New School) on 'The conceptual, political, and historical origins of the constituent power and its intimate relationship to democracy' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The securitisation of education in the Iraqi disputed territories, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | 'The securitisation of education in the Iraqi disputed territories,' 'Education, Transition and Fragility' EXCEPS, University of Exeter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The structure of space on contested cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at City Seminar Workshop, CRAASH |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Thinking Aloud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A mighty roar from four of the brightest intellects of Cambridge University: Professor David Spiegelhalter (Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk) on risk and what it means for us; Dr Clive Oppenheimer (Reader in Volcanology and Remote Sensing) on the challenges of investigating volcanoes in unusual places; Dr Wendy Pullan (Director of the Martin Centre for Research) on the architecture of contested cities; Professor Ha-Joon Chang (Reader in the Political Economy of Development) on the efficiency of financial markets and 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism. A wonderful opportunity to sample some of the finest in Cambridge thinking. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Trade and Exchange in Nicosia's City Centre: Memories of Pre-Division Urban Practices' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC Researcher Anita Bakshi will present a paper entitled: 'Trade and Exchange in Nicosia's City Centre: Memories of Pre-Division Urban Practices' at the History and Theory Research Seminar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.9 October 5.30-7:00pm in the Faculty Library. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Traditions and transitions : teenagers' perceptions of parades in Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | A talk at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work seminar series, Queen's University Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Understanding 'divided cities' in 'contested states' : empire, nation and urban space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CinC Workshop: Everyday Life |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Urban Intersections: Religion and Violence in Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The paper addresses the intersections of religion and violence from the perspective of 'post-conflict' Belfast. The cessation of sustained political violence in Belfast since the late 1990s has stimulated renewed consideration of the relationships between religion, violence and politics. This 're-thinking' is going on within the churches as their members reflect on the degree to which religion has fomented, inadvertently facilitated, or ameliorated ethno-national violence while considering how they might deal with the legacy of thirty years of violent conflict. These localised reflections are framed, and partially informed, by a renewed awareness of the global significance of religion, and by a debate over the degree to which absolutist or fundamentalist religion may or may not drive violent conflict. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Urban agonistes : reading spatial discontinuities in contested cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Keynote Lecture, Urban Conflict and Urban Justice Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Urban conflicts : everyday life at the frontier |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at Gates Trust Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Urban informality : does it matter in divided cities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | City Seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Using visual methods in qualitative research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to postgraduate students for the Advanced Qualitative Methodology Module, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast. Lecture drawing on researchers' work for the CinC Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Walls, buffer zones, frontiers : the spaces of contested cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Guest Lecture Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | When conflicts persist : frontier urbanism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Annual Lecture Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Why architecture is political |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of Socio-political issues in architecture and urbanism', CinC lecture course |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Why map contested cities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Diploma Unit 12 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Why map contested cities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | MPhil B lecture series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Why map contested cities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Divided Cities: The Politics of Mapping and Design lecture series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Young People and Peacewalls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Madeleine Leonard will give a talk entitled: Young People and Peacewalls at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work seminar series, March 28th 2012, Queen's University Belfast, at 1 pm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Young people's perceptions of living in Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | A talk given as a part of Belfast City Council's Exploring Engagement Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |