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Research Modules
Project lead: James Anderson and Liam O’Dowd
with: Ian Shuttleworth and Chris Lloyd
The Geopolitical Context and Categories of City
James Anderson and Liam O'Dowd
Taking Belfast as its starting point, this first strand of Module B1 seeks to provide a more general comparative framework for studying the 'linked cities' and Jerusalem in relation to ethnic, ethno-national and inter-state conflicts. It will examine broad patterns of historical-geographic change from a world of empires to a world of national states and beyond. This analysis builds on previous EU-funded research on borders and border conflicts (Anderson and O’Dowd – see: www.qub.ac.uk/cibr). It discusses different categorizations of ‘divided cities’ and the roles they may play in shaping the wider geopolitical conflicts.
