'Peace-kept' urbanism: Ephemerality and endurance in eastern DRC.

内容摘要

This paper opens up and departs from United Nations peacekeeping camps in the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to grapple with questions around urbanism's temporariness and permanence. Inspired by literature from southern urbanism and camp urbanism that focuses on temporal aspects of the built environment, I trace the various spatio-temporal horizons through which peacekeeping camps come in and out of being. Honing in on a particular moment of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that registers both its extendedness and acknowledgement of an eventual end, four empirical examples illustrate the overlapping temporal logics shaping the spaces of these contingent camps. I trace these logics in ways that can be analytically useful to understanding how urbanism emerges in the continuous re-making of human settlements between now and later, as well as between the city and elsewhere. In doing so, I develop the notion of 'peace-kept' urbanism to account for dwelling arrangements in places where there is peacekeeping, marked by both ephemerality and endurance and fluctuating in conjunction with multiple spatial and temporal horizons. 本文以刚果民主共和国戈马市的联合国维和营地为背景，探讨城市化的临时性和永久性问题。南方城市化和营地城市化关注建成环境的时间特性，受相关文献的启发，本文追踪了维和营地出现和消失的各种时空界域。我们通过四个实例，对联合国组织刚果民主共和国稳定特派团的某个特定时刻进行了研究。这一时刻既体现了其延伸性，也标志着其最终将结束。这四个实例阐释了塑造这些临时营地空间的重叠的时间逻辑。我们以有利于分析的方式追踪这些逻辑，有助于理解城市化如何在现在和将来，在城市和其他地方，在不断重塑人类住区的过程中出现。为此，我们提出了“维和”城市化的概念，以解释维和地区的居住安排，这种安排既短暂又持久，并与多个空间和时间界域一起波动。.