Managing Urban Ethnic Conflict

Abstract

Within a globalising world has come a re-emergence of the local in addressing issues of coexistence, interaction and democracy. This is so because societal fragmentation has been a common companion alongside the economic integration of globalisation (Rosenau 1990). At the same time as we experience the ‘mega-narratives’ of modernisation (economic growth, high technology, education), we bear witness to subversive ‘micro-narratives’ that fuel oppositional movements, together with the breaking by electronic mass mediation and transnational mobilisation of the monopoly of nation states over the project of modernisation (Appadurai 1996). In cities, unprecedented migration, emerging multicultural citizenship, postcolonialism, and the rise of minorities and civil society challenge current ideas and methods of urban governance, planning and policy (Sandercock 1998). At the same time, globalisation of economic production and control has created the paradox that while economic activities now have a wide range of locational advantages, small differences in city characteristics and quality can have a decisive influence upon locational choice (Amin 1992). This chapter, while discussing several different cities in the world, derives many of its conclusions regarding the role of the city amidst globalisation from a study of Jerusalem (Israel/Palestine), Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Johannesburg (South Africa). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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