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Urban Violence in the Middle East : Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State / ed. by Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Space and Place ; 14Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782385837
  • 9781782385844
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.60956 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • HN656.Z9
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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