Violence and the city in the modern Middle East / edited by Nelida Fuccaro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuccaro, Nelida, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban violence--Middle East--History.

Political violence--Middle East--History.

City and town life--Middle East--History.

City and town life.

Political violence.

Urban violence.

History.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Violence and the city coexist in a complicated dialogue, and critical consideration of the city offers an important way to understand the transformative powers of violence-its ability to redraw the boundaries of urban life, to create and divide communities, and to affect the ruling strategies of local elites, governments, and transnational political players. This book considers the diversity of Middle Eastern urbanism from the 18th to the late 20th centuries, from the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad to the provincial towns of Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil settlements of Dhahran and Abadan. By reconstructing the violent pasts of cities, the book opens new vistas on modern Middle Eastern history, offering alternative and complementary perspectives to the making and unmaking of empires, nations, and states. Given the crucial importance of urban centers in shaping the Middle East in the modern era, and the ongoing potential of public histories to foster dialogue and reconciliation, Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East is both critical and timely. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Urban life and questions of violence / Nelida Fuccaro

2. The semantics of violence and space / Rasmus Christian Elling

3. Elite conflict and the urban environment : eighteenth-century Cairo / James E. Baldwin

4. Urban space and prestige : when festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s / Ulrike Freitag

5. Citizenship rights and semantics of colonial power and resistance : Haifa, Jaffa, and Nablus, 1931-1933 / Lauren Banko

6. Challenging the Ottoman pax urbana : intercommunal clashes in 1857 Tunis / Nora Lafi

7. A tamed urban revolution : Saudi Arabia's oil conurbation and the 1967 riots / Claudia Ghrawi

8. Making and unmaking spaces of security : Basra as battlefront, Basra insurgent, 1980-1991 / Dina Rizk Khoury

9. A patriotic uprising : Baghdadi Jews and the Wathba / Orit Bashkin

10. Dissecting moments of unrest : twentieth-century Kirkuk / Nelida Fuccaro

11. War of clubs : struggle for space in Abadan and the 1946 oil strike / Rasmus Christian Elling

12. Urban rupture : a fire, two hotels, and the transformation of Cairo / Yasser Elsheshtawy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804795845

0804795843

9780804797528

0804797528

OCLC:

912140591