Daniel Monterescu

Jaffa Shared and Shattered (eBook, ePUB)

Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Binational cities 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/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel Monterescu argues that such places challenge our assumptions about cities and nationalism, calling into question the Israeli state's policy of maintaining homogeneous, segregated, and ethnically stable spaces. Analyzing everyday interactions, life stories, and histories of violence, he reveals the politics of gentrification and the circumstantial coalitions that define the city. Drawing on key theorists in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, and political science, he outlines a new relational theory of sociality and spatiality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253016836
• Artikelnr.: 43808083

Autorenporträt

Daniel Monterescu is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University. He is author (with Haim Hazan) of A Town at Sundown: Aging Nationalism in Jaffa and editor (with Dan Rabinowitz) of Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contrived Coexistence: Relational Histories of Urban Mix in
Israel/Palestine
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
Notes
References
Index