General Readings (more theoretical in nature) on the “promise” of the city and the importance of thinking about cities as hosts for difference, diversity, and equality
Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 156-255.
Takjbakhsh, Kian. The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 162-184.
Lefebre, Henri. Excerpts from “Space and Politics.” In Writings on Cities. Selected, translated and introduced by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas. Blackwell Publishers, 1996, pp. 185-197, and 206-215.
Katznelson, Ira. “Social Justice, Liberalism, and the City: Considerations on David Harvey, John Rawls, and Karl Polanyi.” In The Urbanization of Injustice. Edited by Merrifield and Swyngedouw. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press, 1997, pp. 45-64.
Merrifield, Andy. “Social Justice and Communities of Difference: A Snapshot from Liverpool.” In The Urbanization of Injustice. Edited by Merrifield and Swyngedouw. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press, 1997, pp. 200-222.
Gunn, Simon. “The Spatial Turn: Changing Histories of Space and Place.” In Identities in Space, Contested Terrains in the Western City since 1850. Edited by Simon Gunn, and Robert J. Morris. Ashgate, 2001, pp. 1-18.
Readings that explore legal and jurisdictional dynamics of cities, the nexus between cities and nations, and the relations between or ethnic, racial, religious, or class identities, cities, and/or nations
Frug, Gerald E. “The City as a Legal Concept.” In Cities of the Mind: Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences. Edited by Rodwin, and Hollister. Pp. 233-290.
Kalmanowiecki, Laura. “Policing the People, Building the State.” In Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation. Edited by Davis, and Pereira. Pp. 209-231.
Zack, Lizabeth. “The Police Municipale and the Formation of the French State.” In Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation. Edited by Davis, and Pereira. Pp. 281-302.
Philpot, Daniel. “The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments.” In Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives. Edited by Miller, and Hashmi. Pp. 335-360.
Deak, Istvan. “The Rise and Triumph of the East European Nation-State.” Depth: A Journal for Values in Public Policy 2 (1992): 77-95.
Peterson, Roger. Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe. Pp. 17-39, and 95-116.
Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. Introduction, Chap. 1, and Chap. 6
Marx, Anthony. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Introduction.
Studies of local, national, and international dynamics that create intolerance, polarization, oppression, or conflict in cities
Bollens, Scott. On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. Pp. 51-268.
Kusno, Abidin. “Violence of Categories: Urban Design and the Making of Indonesian Modernity.” In City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity. Edited by Smith, and Bender. Pp. 15-50.
Goh, Ben Lan. “Stability in Flux: The Ambivalence of State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of Modern Urban Malaysia.” In City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity. Edited by Smith, and Bender. Pp. 51-95.
Bollens, Scott. “Managing Urban Ethnic Conflict.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America. Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 108-124.
Kasteloot, Christian, and Henk Merk. “Segregation and Economic Integration of Immigrants in Brussels.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level. Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 55-73.
Body-Gendrot, Sophie. “The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level. Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 1-10.
Khalidi. “Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India.” Pp. 53-115.
Ballard. “The Signature of Terror.” In Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place. Edited by B. David, and M. Wilson. Pp.13-26.
Claims and case studies of activities theorized as creating tolerance, harmony, or cosmopolitanism in cities
Kahn, Bonnie Menes. “Constantinople: Diversity and the Origins of Tolerance,” and “Vienna: The Creation of a Public Life.” In Cosmopolitan Culture: The Gilt-edged Dream of a Tolerant City. Pp. 57-94, and 111-170.
Simon, Patrick. “The Mosaic Pattern: Cohabitation between Ethnic Groups in Belleville, Paris.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level. Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 100-118.
Oldenberg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day. Pp. 20-85, and 100-115.
Hambleton, Robin. “The New City Management.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America. Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 147-168.
Collinge, Chris, and Alan Srbljanin. “A Network Paradigm for Urban Governance.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America. Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 169-194.
Bollens, Scott. On Narrow Ground. Pp. 269-303, and 340-343.
Case study readings of cities that have moved (or tried to) from peace to conflict, or vice-versa
Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Pp. 135-303.
Beall, Jo, et. al. Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg. Pp. 3-109, and 175-206.
Khalaf, Samir, and Philip S. Khoury. Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-war Reconstruction. Pp. 101-182.
Genberg, Daniel. “Borders and Boundaries in Post-war Beirut.” In Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Spatial Consequences. Edited by Erdentug, and Colombijn. Pp. 281-296.
Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. Pp. 47-106, and 125-149.
Bollens, Scott. On Narrow Ground. Pp. 307-309.
Bose, Sumatra. Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention. Pp. 1-148.
Bringa, Tone. Being Muslim the Bosnian Way. Pp. 12-84.
Misc. Primary Documents (including internet sites)
United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Report titled “Creating an Efficient, Impartial and Modern City Police Force in Mostar.”
United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) site.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting. [Reports on the situation in Mostar and Mitrovica.]
Other internet and NGO sources to be determined.
Readings that see cities as transcending national boundaries or that explore alternative territorial dynamics in which to situate the urban experience and/or establish cosmopolitanism
Herzog, Larry. Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Pp. 13-32.
Hardin, Russell. One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict. Chap. 7 and other selected pages.
Bellamy, Richard, and Dario Castiglione. “Between Cosmopolis and Community: Three Models of Rights and Democracy within the European Union.” In Re-imagining Political Community. Edited by Archibugi, Held, and Kohler. Pp. 152-178.
Kohler, Martin. “From the National to the Cosmopolitan Public Sphere.” In Re-imagining Political Community. Edited by Archibugi, Held, and Kohler. Pp. 232-251.
Faist, Thomas. “Economic Activities of Migrants in Transnational Social Spaces.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level. Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 11-25.
Jouve, Bernard, and Christian Lefevre. “Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Dynamics.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America. Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 185-200.
Appuradai. “Sovereignity without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography.” In The Anthropology of Space and Place. Edited by S. Low, and D. Lawrence-Zuniga. Pp. 337-349.
