Shared Space: Divided Space

Essays on Conflict and Territorial Organization

Michael Chisholm, David M. Smith, Michael Chisholm, David M. Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781138927537
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317358367
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This specially commissioned volume of original essays, first published in 1990, provides a unique view of conflict, territorial behaviour and reconciliation between groups – social, racial, religious and nationalist – within states in both the developed and the developing worlds. The volume as a whole shows the wide range of geographical solutions which have been adopted in attempts to limit conflict and foster stability. This title underlines the importance of a geographical perspective on intergroup conflict and reconciliation, and provides a broad range of real-world experience in carefully chosen case studies. Shared Space: Divided Space will be of interest students of the social sciences as well as to general readers, who will find this title to be accessible and authoritative.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• List of tables
• List of figures
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction: the sharing and dividing of geographical space
• 2 Britain as a plural society
• 3 Group identity and urban space: the North American experience
• 4 Nationhood and statehood in Canada
• 5 The Soviet federation: from corporatist to crisis politics
• 6 Religious vs. regional determinism: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire
• 7 Separatism and devolution: the Basques in Spain
• 8 Separation and integration: the case of Ireland
• 9 Involuntary incorporation: the case of Israel
• 10 Imposed separation: the case of South Africa
• 11 Aboriginal Australia: survival by separation
• 12 Making Europe: towards a geography of European integration
• Index