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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/50916

Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers : Notes on Jerusalem's Present Geopolitics

英語

2012

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

Eurasia Border Review

3(2)

55-69

This article explores the relevance of geopolitics to the study of urban space in contested territories, with a specific focus on Jerusalem's colonial geographies. The main theoretical argument is that the geopolitics of cities have to do with a crossing of scales - from the neighbourhood scale to the city level and then to the colonial apparatuses of the state. This is related to the fact that the consequences and impacts of borders and territoriality are not diminishing. Instead we should pay attention to new scales of territorial affiliations and borders. At the same time as recognising that borders may be flexible, they are still selective on different geographical scales.

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1884-9466

AA12497353