Urban Violence in the Middle East : : Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State /

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.

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 stud...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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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

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