Jaffa Shared and Shattered

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Monterescu Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Autorentext

Daniel Monterescu

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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