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VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research ( IF 3.732 ) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 , DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13169
Ana Aceska

The vertical turn in urban scholarship is a critique of the overly horizontal perspectives used in studying cities in academic research. This article broadens this scholarship by engaging with the ways that horizontal perspectives on urban conditions dominate not only scholarly perspectives but also professional responses to urban change. By drawing on research in the divided city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it argues for a ‘polyvocal’ approach to studying professional responses to urban conditions, one that facilitates a productive juxtaposition of those responses with city dwellers’ everyday engagements with the vertical qualities of the built environment. It also seeks to understand how vertical geographies—here, tall landmarks—in divided cities are seen as part of the complex urban realities of city dwellers in strategies of urban planning and heritage-making related to postwar reconciliation. These findings are compared with ethnographic data about how people make sense of tall landmarks in divided cities and how they experience and interpret them in relation to senses of togetherness and belonging to divided cities. By putting these two lines of research in a dialogue, the ‘polyvocal' approach offers a way to rethink conventional strategies of urban reconciliation and taken-for-granted ways of conceptualizing cities.

中文翻译:

垂直地理、多语言和分裂城市中的日常生活

城市学术的垂直转向是对学术研究中城市研究中过度横向视角的批评。本文通过探讨城市状况的横向视角不仅主导学术观点,而且主导对城市变化的专业反应,拓宽了这一学术领域。通过借鉴波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那分裂城市莫斯塔尔的研究,它主张采用一种“多声”方法来研究专业人士对城市条件的反应,这种方法有助于将这些反应与城市居民的日常活动与垂直质量进行富有成效的并置的建成环境。它还试图了解垂直地理——在这里,在与战后和解相关的城市规划和遗产建设战略中,分裂城市中的高大地标被视为城市居民复杂城市现实的一部分。这些发现与民族志数据进行了比较,这些数据涉及人们如何理解分裂城市中的高层地标,以及他们如何体验和解释它们与分裂城市的团结感和归属感的关系。通过将这两条研究路线进行对话,“多声”方法提供了一种重新思考城市和解的传统策略和理所当然的城市概念化方式的方法。这些发现与民族志数据进行了比较,这些数据涉及人们如何理解分裂城市中的高层地标,以及他们如何体验和解释它们与分裂城市的团结感和归属感的关系。通过将这两条研究路线进行对话,“多声”方法提供了一种重新思考城市和解的传统策略和理所当然的城市概念化方式的方法。这些发现与民族志数据进行了比较,这些数据涉及人们如何理解分裂城市中的高层地标,以及他们如何体验和解释它们与分裂城市的团结感和归属感的关系。通过将这两条研究路线进行对话,“多声”方法提供了一种重新思考城市和解的传统策略和理所当然的城市概念化方式的方法。
更新日期:2023-03-29
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