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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | CITYB229002 |
| Course Title | Topics in Comparative Urbanism-Post-Conflict Urbanism |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Restrepo,Lauren Hansen |
| Times and Days | TTh 11:40am-01:00pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2302 This is a topics course. Course content varies.; Current topic description: Cities are more than the backdrops against which conflict and inter-group violence proceed. Indeed, in places marked by deep ethnoreligious divisions, cities are also the stakes of war itself. Just as control over streets, buildings, and infrastructure symbolizes power and resistance, so, too, are post-conflict municipal power sharing and emergent forms of post-conflict urban life the keys to long-term peacemaking. In this writing-intensive course, we will examine the physical and social scars of urban violence in cities marked by ethnopolitical contestation as well as the plans for reconstruction, the negotiation of public space and memorial, the design and spatiality of infrastructure, and the reconfiguration of governance and daily life in three post-conflict cities: Belfast, Kigali, and Johannesburg. Students will draw on the lessons learned to approach the question of our fourth case study, Jerusalem, with a sense of hope for a future than cannot but include peacebuilding at the urban scale. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Inquiry into the Past (IP), Writing Intensive; Haverford: B: Analysis of the Social World (B), Social Science (SO) Enrollment Cap: 15; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors and minors by class (seniors then juniors) then Seniors, then Juniors, then Sophomores. |
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