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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Adham, Khaled,; Elling, Rasmus Christian,; Freitag, Ulrike,; Fuccaro, Nelida,; Ghrawi, Claudia,; Hammad, Hanan,; Krimsti, Feras,; Lafi, Nora,; Lévy-Aksu, Noémi,; Masjedi, Fatemeh,; Mazza, Roberto,; Nejad, Reza Masoudi,; Riedler, Florian,
• HerausgeberIn: Freitag, Ulrike,; Fuccaro, Nelida,; Ghrawi, Claudia,; Lafi, Nora,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Space and Place ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

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.

Table of 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