Violence and the city in the modern Middle East

Urban life and questions of violence / Nelida Fuccaro -- The semantics of violence and space / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Elite conflict and the urban environment : eighteenth-century Cairo / James E. Baldwin -- Urban space and prestige : when festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s / Ulrike...

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Contributors: Fuccaro, Nelida (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California Stanford University Press [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 20 A 8419
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Keywords:
Arabische Staaten
Aufsatzsammlung
City and town life > Middle East > History
Gewalt
Gewalttätigkeit
Islamische Staaten
Naher Osten
Naher Osten > Islamische Staaten > Arabische Staaten > Stadt > Stadtforschung > Gewalt > Politik > Stadtleben > Gewalttätigkeit
Political Violence > Middle East > History
Politische Gewaltanwendung
Stadt
Stadtforschung
Stadtleben
Urban violence > Middle East > History
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Summary:Urban life and questions of violence / Nelida Fuccaro -- The semantics of violence and space / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Elite conflict and the urban environment : eighteenth-century Cairo / James E. Baldwin -- Urban space and prestige : when festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s / Ulrike Freitag -- Citizenship rights and semantics of colonial power and resistance : Haifa, Jaffa, and Nablus, 1931-1933 / Lauren Banko -- Challenging the Ottoman pax urbana : intercommunal clashes in 1857 Tunis / Nora Lafi -- A tamed urban revolution : Saudi Arabia's oil conurbation and the 1967 riots / Claudia Ghrawi -- Making and unmaking spaces of security : Basra as battlefront, Basra insurgent, 1980-1991 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- A patriotic uprising : Baghdadi Jews and the Wathba / Orit Bashkin -- Dissecting moments of unrest : twentieth-century Kirkuk / Nelida Fuccaro -- War of clubs : struggle for space in Abadan and the 1946 oil strike / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Urban rupture : a fire, two hotels, and the transformation of Cairo / Yasser Elsheshtawy
Physical Description:xvi, 294 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm
ISBN:9780804797528
9780804795845