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Jaffa shared and shattered : contrived coexistence in Israel/Palestine /

"Multiethnic cities--where the political "other" is also a neighbor--play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monterescu, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Beyond methodological nationalism: communal formations and ambivalent belonging
  • 1. Spatial relationality: theorizing space and sociality in Jewish-Arab "mixed towns"
  • 2. The bridled "bride of Palestine": urban orientalism and the Zionist quest for place
  • 3. The "mother of the stranger": Palestinian presence and the ambivalence of Sumud
  • Part II. Sharing place or consuming space: the neoliberal city
  • 4. Inner space and high ceilings: agents and ideologies of ethnogentrification
  • 5. To buy or not to be: trespassing the gated community
  • Part III. Being and belonging in the binational city: a phenomenology of the urban
  • 6. Escaping the mythscape: tales of intimacy and violence
  • 7. Situational radicalism and creative marginality: the "Arab spring" and Jaffa's counterculture
  • Conclusion: The city of the forking paths: imagining the futures of binational urbanism.