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

该项目研究了过去和现在的政治分裂城市的案例，以揭示能源基础设施--被理解为社会技术配置--如何在有争议的城市背景下加强隔离或促进合作。它结合了历史和当代的分析，主要从人文地理学的角度来探讨城市基础设施、能源安全和城市冲突之间的复杂关系。这个项目的目的有四个方面。首先，该项目展示了政治冲突如何表现在柏林、耶路撒冷和尼科西亚这三个标志性分裂城市生产、提供和使用电力和天然气所涉及的结构和进程中。其次，分析了能源基础设施是如何被纳入这些城市的城市复原力战略的，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，从案例比较中获得关于城市背景下地缘政治冲突与能源安全之间关系的知识，有助于在城市研究、能源研究与和平研究之间建立理论。最后，该项目深化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)的研究合作，并加强了它们之间的机构联系。它将在胡志明市建立一个联合研究中心，专门研究城市冲突和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)评估了三个相关的学术辩论--关于城市基础设施、能源安全和城市冲突--它们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)探讨了自1974年以来三个选定城市--柏林、耶路撒冷和尼科西亚--在能源基础设施方面的政治分裂表现。3)第三个工作包(战略)调查了三个城市从分裂到现在发展起来的社会技术复原力战略。4)第四个工作方案(机构)分析了三个城市的能源基础设施作为冲突工具或合作工具的作用。5)第五个工作包(轨迹)对案例进行了比较，并从社会技术途径的角度解释了调查结果。6)第六个工作包(所涉问题)从关于三个城市的城市治理、能源安全和地缘政治之间的关系以及未来城市能源政策的理论建设项目中得出结论。它还将为后续项目做准备，以研究更大规模的全球分裂城市样本。

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.