Urban violence in the Middle East
Subtitle: changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state
By: edited by Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, and Nora Lafi .
Series: Space and place -- volume 14
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781782385837; 9781782385844
Subjects: Urban violence; History; Urban Sociology; City and town life; Community life; Political culture; Petroleum industry and trade; Social change; Social conditions; Politics and government; Colonial influence
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Urban violence in the Middle East changing cityscapes in the transition from empire to nation state / Claudia Ghrawi, Fatemeh Masjedi, Nelida Fuccaro, Ulrike Freitag; title: Part I. Managing and employing violence; title: Mapping and scaling urban violence : the 1800 insurrection in Cairo / Nora Lafi; title: A capital challenge : managing violence and disorders in late Ottoman Istanbul / Noémi Levy-Aksu; title: Gendered obscenity : women's tongues, men's phalluses and the state's fist in the making of urban norm in interwar Egypt / Hanan Hammad; title: Part II. Symbolic politics of violence; title: Urban violence, the Muharram processions and the transformation of Iranian urban society : the case of Dezful / Reza Masoudi Nejad; title: Symbolic politics and urban violence in late Ottoman Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag; title: Part III. Communal violence and its discontents; title: The 1850 uprising in Aleppo : reconsidering the explanatory power of sectarian argumentations / Feras Krimsti; title: The city as a stage for a violent spectacle : the massacres of Armenians in istanbul in 1895-96 / Florian Riedler; title: Transforming the holy city : from communal clashes to urban violence : the Nebi Musa riots in 1920 / Roberto Mazza; title: Part IV. Oil cities : spatiality and violence; title: On lines and fences : labour, community and violence in an oil city / Rasmus Christian Elling; title: Reading oil as urban violence : Kirkuk and its oil conurbation, 1927-1958 / Nelida Fuccaro; title: Structural and physical violence in Saudi Arabian oil towns, 1953-1956 / Claudia Ghrawi; title: Afterword: Urban injustice, urban violence and the revolution : reflections on Cairo / Khaled Adham.