Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically
informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and
co-existence in cities. Bollens uses a wide-ranging set of over 100
interviews with local political and community leaders to
investigate how popular urban policies can trigger 'pushes from
below' that help nation-states address social and political
challenges. The book brings the city and the urban scale into
contemporary debates about democratic transformations in ethnically
diverse countries. It connects the city, on conceptual and
pragmatic levels, to two leading issues of today - the existence of
competing and potentially destructive nationalistic allegiances and
the limitations of democracy in multinational societies.
Bollens finds that cities and urbanists are not necessarily
hemmed in by ethnic conflict and political gridlock, but can be
proactive agents that stimulate the progress of societal
normalization. The fuller potential of cities is in their ability
to catalyze multinational democratization. Alternately, if cities
are left unprotected and unmanaged, ethnic antagonists can fragment
the city's collective interests in ways that slow down and confine
the advancement of sustainable democracy. This book will be helpful
to scholars, international organizations, and grassroots
organizations in understanding why and how the peace-constitutive
city emerges in some cases while it is misplaced and neglected in
others.
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