1st Edition
Bordered Cities and Divided Societies Humanistic Essays of Conflict, Violence, and Healing
Introduction: Soul Trekking 1. Polarized: Us/Them 2. Emotions: Interior 3. Place: Exterior 4. Time: Past/Future Postscript: Can It Happen in America? Is It Happening Here?
Biography
Scott A. Bollens is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy and Warmington Endowed Chair of Peace and International Cooperation, University of California, Irvine. For over 25 years, he has investigated urbanism and nationalistic political conflict in nine contested cities worldwide. Detailed analyses of two of these cities are in Trajectories of Conflict and Peace: Jerusalem and Belfast Since 1994 (London: Routledge, 2018).
"Bollens presents a highly radical new approach to analysing processes of establishing borders and generating cleavages. Drawing heavily on emotional aspects in his interviews, he convincingly radicalizes the methodological armature of ethnographic analyses." —Jürgen Mackert, Universität Potsdam
