TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adham,Khaled
AU  - Elling,Rasmus Christian
AU  - Freitag,Ulrike
AU  - Fuccaro,Nelida
AU  - Ghrawi,Claudia
AU  - Hammad,Hanan
AU  - Krimsti,Feras
AU  - Lafi,Nora
AU  - Lévy-Aksu,Noémi
AU  - Masjedi,Fatemeh
AU  - Mazza,Roberto
AU  - Nejad,Reza Masoudi
AU  - Riedler,Florian
TI  - Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State 
T2  - Space and Place
SN  - 9781782385837
AV  - HN656.Z9 
U1  - 303.60956 23/eng
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - City and town life
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Community life
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political science
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social history
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Urban violence
KW  - Erdölpolitik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Gewalt
KW  - Politik
KW  - Verstädterung
KW  - Vertreibung
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - Armenier
KW  - Gewalttätigkeit
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 18th century
KW  - big oil
KW  - cairo
KW  - changing cityscape
KW  - city life
KW  - cityscapes
KW  - contemporary politics
KW  - current politics
KW  - diplomacy
KW  - fossil fuel
KW  - historical
KW  - history
KW  - middle eastern history
KW  - middle eastern politics
KW  - nation states
KW  - oil industry
KW  - ottoman empire
KW  - political science
KW  - qajar
KW  - revolutionaries
KW  - sociology
KW  - textbook
KW  - understanding violence
KW  - urban violence
KW  - violence
KW  - war and insurgencies
KW  - wartime
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I. Managing and Employing Violence --; Chapter 1 Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo --; Chapter 2 A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul --; Chapter 3 Gendered Obscenity: Women’s Tongues, Men’s Phalluses and the State’s Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt --; Part II. Symbolic Politics of Violence --; Chapter 4 Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful --; Chapter 5 Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman Jeddah --; Part III. Communal Violence and its Discontents --; Chapter 6 The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations --; Chapter 7 The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895–96 --; Chapter 8 Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920 --; Part IV. Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence --; Chapter 9 On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City --; Chapter 10 Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927–58 --; Chapter 11 Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953–56 --; Afterword. Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo --; Contributors --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires — Ottoman and Qajar, but also European — to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cityscapes throughout the region
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385844?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385844
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782385844/original
ER  -