num_pages: 287
description: In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often suggested remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates everyday life under Israels long military occupation as it is defined by processes and conditions of apartness and separation as Palestinians are increasingly regulated and controlled. Abowd examines how both national communities are progressively divided by walls checkpoints and separate road networks in one of the most segregated cities in the world. Drawing upon recent theories on racial politics colonialism and urban spatial dynamics Colonial Jerusalem analyzes the politics of myth history and memory across an urban landscape integral to the national cosmologies of both Palestinians and Israelis and meaningful to all communities.
language: None
title: Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012
publisher: Syracuse University Press