Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem

Urban environments are often disputed over issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. citizenship within such spaces has been found to be fragmented, or even ‘dark.’ This paper focuses on the role an intermediary institution, Community Council (CC), in contested city (East) Jerusalem. Building in-depth interviews site visits, we suggest that CCs implement a limited form urban via range functions vary from service provision political representation. We explain process by which this is created operated, highlight precarity non-democratic context where most people stateless residents. Through case, seek enrich literature cities with emphasis multiple national logics operate space.