Powering Divided Cities: Urban Energy Systems between Separation and Cooperation (DiviCiti)

为分裂的城市提供动力：分离与合作之间的城市能源系统 (DiviCiti)

• 批准号: 429443512
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Timothy Moss, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Hewbrew University of Jerusalem
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/429443512?language=en
• 关键词: Powering; Divided; Cities; Urban; Energy

This project studies past and present cases of politically divided cities to reveal how energy infrastructures - understood as socio-technical configurations - can reinforce separation or promote cooperation in contested urban contexts. It combines historical with contemporary analysis from a primarily human geography perspective to explore the complex relationship between urban infrastructures, energy security and urban conflict. The purpose of this venture is four-fold. First, the project demonstrates how political conflict has manifested itself in the structures and processes involved in producing, providing and using electricity and gas in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. Second, it analyses how energy infrastructures have been enrolled in the urban resilience strategies of these cities, whether to increase isolationist self-dependence or cooperative inter-dependence. Third, it generates from the case comparison knowledge on the relationship between geopolitical conflict and energy security in urban contexts as a contribution to theory-building at the interface of urban studies, energy studies and peace studies. Finally, the project deepens research collaboration and strengthens institutional ties between the German and Israeli partners at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HUJI). It will initiate the establishment of a joint research centre at HUJI dedicated to studying the relationship between urban conflict and energy geopolitics. The work programme comprises six work packages. 1) The first work package (Concepts) assesses three pertinent strands of scholarly debate - on urban infrastructures, energy security and urban conflict - with respect to their value and synergies in pursuing the project’s objectives. 2) The second work package (Manifestations) explores the manifestations of political division in the energy infrastructures of the three selected cities - Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia - since 1948, respectively 1974. 3) The third work package (Strategies) investigates the strategies of socio-technical resilience developed in the three cities from division up until the present day. 4) The fourth work package (Agency) analyses the role of energy infrastructures in the three cities as instruments of conflict or of cooperation. 5) The fifth work package (Trajectories) compares the cases and interprets the findings in terms of their socio-technical pathways. 6) The sixth work package (Implications) draws conclusions from the project for theory-building on the relationship between urban governance, energy security and geopolitics and for future urban energy policy in the three cities. It will also prepare for a follow-up project to study a much larger global sample of divided cities.

该项目研究了过去和现在政治分裂的城市的案例，揭示了能源基础设施-被理解为社会技术配置-如何在有争议的城市环境中加强分离或促进合作。它结合了历史和当代分析，从主要的人文地理学角度探讨城市基础设施，能源安全和城市冲突之间的复杂关系。这次冒险有四个目的。首先，该项目展示了政治冲突如何在三个标志性的分裂城市（柏林、耶路撒冷和尼科西亚）生产、提供和使用电力和天然气的结构和过程中表现出来。其次，它分析了能源基础设施如何被纳入这些城市的城市弹性战略，无论是增加孤立主义的自我依赖还是合作的相互依赖。第三，它产生的案例比较知识的地缘政治冲突和能源安全之间的关系在城市背景下，作为理论建设的贡献，在城市研究，能源研究与和平研究的接口。最后，该项目深化了研究合作，加强了德国和以色列在柏林洪堡大学（HUB）和耶路撒冷希伯来大学（HUJI）的合作伙伴之间的机构联系。它将启动在HUJI建立一个联合研究中心，致力于研究城市冲突与能源地缘政治之间的关系。工作方案包括六个工作包。1)第一个工作包（概念）评估了学术辩论的三个相关方面-城市基础设施、能源安全和城市冲突-在实现项目目标方面的价值和协同作用。2)第二个工作包（表现形式）探讨了政治分歧的表现形式的能源基础设施的三个选定的城市-柏林，耶路撒冷和尼科西亚-自1948年以来，分别1974年。3)第三个工作包（战略）调查了三个城市从分裂到现在制定的社会技术复原力战略。4)第四个工作包（机构）分析了这三个城市的能源基础设施作为冲突或合作工具的作用。5)第五个工作包（轨迹）比较的情况下，并解释其社会技术途径方面的调查结果。6)第六个工作包（影响）从关于城市治理、能源安全和地缘政治之间关系的理论建设项目中得出结论，并为三个城市未来的城市能源政策得出结论。它还将筹备一个后续项目，以研究更大规模的全球分裂城市样本。