Cities and destroying ‘the other’

• Authors: Agnieszka Szpak

Title variants

PL

Miasta i niszczenie „inności”

Abstracts

PL

Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, że miasta są bardzo często atakowane ze względu na swoją cechę „inności”. Przez „innego” można rozumieć inną religię, inną etniczność, inną kulturę, inne poglądy polityczne lub inne osoby, co jest ściśle związane z ideą różnorodności, heterogeniczności, pluralizmu i gęstości jako istotnych cech współczesnych miast. Autorka analizuje teorie wyjaśniające motywy niszczenia miast, takie jak te traktujące niszczenie miast jako część ludobójstwa lub jak odrębna teoria miastobójstwa. Wreszcie autorka proponuje spojrzenie na niszczenie miast przez pryzmat niszczenia „innego” i możliwości wspólnoty. Wykorzystywane metody badawcze to analiza treści oraz analiza formalno-prawna. Analiza formalno-prawna koncentruje się na orzecznictwie Międzynarodowego Trybunału Karnego do spraw Zbrodni w b. Jugosławii, a analiza treści na relewantnej literaturze z pogranicza studiów miejskich i studiów międzynarodowych.

EN

The aim of this article is to show that cities are very often attacked because of their characteristic of ‘otherness’. ‘The other’ may be understood as other religion, other ethnicity, other culture, other political views or other people which is closely related to the idea of diversity, heterogeneity, pluralism and density as essential features of contemporary cities. The author examines theories explaining motives for destroying cities like the latter being a part of genocide or a distinct theory of urbicide. Finally the author proposes looking at the destruction of cities through the lens of destroying ‘the other’ and the possibility of a community. The research methods used include desk research and formal-legal analysis. Formal-legal analysis focuses on the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the desk research on the relevant literature at the intersection of urban studies and international studies.

Keywords

PL

miasta; 'inny/inność'; miastobójstwo; ludobójstwo

EN

cities; 'the other'; urbicide; genocide

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski
• Journal: Studia Miejskie
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 45
• Pages: 11-23

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Szpak

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Wydział Nauk o Polityce i Bezpieczeństwie

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Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/sm.4914

Biblioteka Nauki

17923265