Shared Space: Divided Space Essays on Conflict and Territorial Organization

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.

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

Chisholm, Michael; Smith, David M.