Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state /

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"Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the cas...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freitag, Ulrike (Editor ), Fuccaro, Nelida (Editor ), Ghrawi, Claudia (Editor ), Lafi, Nora (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Colección:Space and place ; v. 14.
Temas:
Urban violence > Middle East > History.
Sociology, Urban > Middle East > History.
City and town life > Middle East > History.
Community life > Middle East > History.
Political culture > Middle East > History.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Middle East > History.
Social change > Middle East > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
City and town life
Colonial influence
Community life
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects
Political culture
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Urban violence
Middle East > Social conditions.
Middle East > Politics and government.
Middle East > Colonial influence.
Moyen-Orient > Politique et gouvernement.
Middle East
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Urban violence in the Middle East changing cityscapes in the transition from empire to nation state / Claudia Ghrawi, Fatemeh Masjedi, Nelida Fuccaro, Ulrike Freitag
  • Part I. Managing and employing violence
  • Mapping and scaling urban violence : the 1800 insurrection in Cairo / Nora Lafi
  • A capital challenge : managing violence and disorders in late Ottoman Istanbul / Noémi Levy-Aksu
  • Gendered obscenity : women's tongues, men's phalluses and the state's fist in the making of urban norm in interwar Egypt / Hanan Hammad
  • Part II. Symbolic politics of violence
  • Urban violence, the Muharram processions and the transformation of Iranian urban society : the case of Dezful / Reza Masoudi Nejad
  • Symbolic politics and urban violence in late Ottoman Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag
  • Part III. Communal violence and its discontents
  • The 1850 uprising in Aleppo : reconsidering the explanatory power of sectarian argumentations / Feras Krimsti
  • The city as a stage for a violent spectacle : the massacres of Armenians in istanbul in 1895-96 / Florian Riedler
  • Transforming the holy city : from communal clashes to urban violence : the Nebi Musa riots in 1920 / Roberto Mazza
  • Part IV. Oil cities : spatiality and violence
  • On lines and fences : labour, community and violence in an oil city / Rasmus Christian Elling
  • Reading oil as urban violence : Kirkuk and its oil conurbation, 1927-1958 / Nelida Fuccaro
  • Structural and physical violence in Saudi Arabian oil towns, 1953-1956 / Claudia Ghrawi
  • Afterword: Urban injustice, urban violence and the revolution : reflections on Cairo / Khaled Adham.

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