ABSTRACT

Urban environments are often disputed over issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Urban citizenship within such spaces has been found to be fragmented, or even ‘dark.’ This paper focuses on the role of an intermediary institution, the Community Council (CC), in the contested city of (East) Jerusalem. Building on in-depth interviews and site visits, we suggest that CCs implement a limited form of urban citizenship via a range of functions that vary from service provision to political representation. We explain the process by which this form of urban citizenship is created and operated, and highlight the precarity of limited urban citizenship in a non-democratic context where most people are stateless residents. Through this case, we seek to enrich the literature on urban citizenship and CCs in contested cities with an emphasis on the multiple urban and national logics that operate in space.

摘要

城市环境经常在阶级、性别、种族和种族问题上存在争议。已发现此类空间内的城市公民是支离破碎的，甚至是“黑暗的”。本文重点介绍了一个中介机构社区委员会（CC）在有争议的（东）耶路撒冷市中的作用。在深入访谈和实地考察的基础上，我们建议 CC 通过从服务提供到政治代表的一系列职能来实施有限形式的城市公民。我们解释了这种形式的城市公民身份的创建和运作过程，并强调了在大多数人都是无国籍居民的非民主背景下，有限的城市公民身份的不稳定性。通过这个案例，