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The construction of equality : Syriac immigration and the Swedish city / Jennifer Mack.
Penn Museum Library DL641.S97 M33 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mack, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Syrians--Sweden--Södertälje.
- Syrians.
- Södertälje (Sweden)--Ethnic relations.
- Södertälje (Sweden).
- Sweden--Emigration and immigration.
- Sweden.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Sweden--Södertälje.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- In The Construction of Equality, Jennifer Mack shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the Swedish city's built environment "from below." Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation, and interviews. Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Standards and Separatism
- The Swedish Million Program, Syriac Enclaves, and Equality 19
- 2 Visible Cities, Invisible Citizens
- Service and Citizenship in the Centrum 55
- 3 Making Mesopotälje
- Sacred and Profane "Diaspora Space" in the City 91
- 4 "Södertälje is a Theater"
- The Performance of Propriety and Ritual Infrastructure 135
- 5 Greetings from Hollywood!
- Enclaves and Participation "from the Ghetto to the Mansion" 171
- 6 Safety in Numbers
- Tolerance and Norms in Syriac Design 211
- The New Periphery 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816698691
- 0816698694
- 9780816698714
- 0816698716
- OCLC:
- 982091328
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