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Oct 2026
Symbolic governance and the spatial politics of disorder: Anti-social behaviour in Belfast’s ‘Holyland’
This article examines how urban disorder is governed under conditions of contested legitimacy in a post-conflict city. Drawing on documentary analysis of institutional and policy materials from 2004 to 2025, it develops the concept of symbolic governance, defined as calibrated legitimacy management through which instit...
Graham Ellison, Louise Rhodes
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