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From failed states to fragile cities: redefining spaces of humanitarian practice / Nogueira, Joao Pontes

Nogueira, Joao Pontes	Journal Article
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It has become commonplace to claim that cities are becoming conflict zones, or ‘war zones’. This article traces some of the discursive and conceptual shifts that made it possible to define the city as a new frontier for international humanitarian action in states of the Global South. In order to represent cities as humanitarian spaces, concepts of ‘failure’ and ‘fragility’ have been problematised and subjected to reinterpretations that legitimised new strategies applied to the urban realm. I argue that this re-scaling of humanitarian practices enables a de-coupling and inclusion of so called new ‘urban conflicts’ in strategies of global liberal governance. Moving from failed states to fragile cites is a key development to understand changes in the practices that redefine humanitarian spaces today. The definition of urban violence as a new type of conflict informs a new cycle of expansion of the humanitarian order focused on the city. The article analyses the problematisation of concepts of failure and fragility as a decisive move to redefine the boundaries of humanitarian spaces.

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State Failure ; Humanitarian Space ; Cities ; Fragility ; Urban Violence

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Ten years of IPS: fracturing IR / Huysmans, Jef ; Nogueira, Joao Pontes

Huysmans, Jef	Journal Article
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In the past few years the relative success of international political sociology as an intellectual project has stimulated debates about its contribution to international studies. With this issue we celebrate ten years of International Political Sociology.

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IPS ; Ten Years ; Fracturing IR

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