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Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

Hardcover

Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 0253016711
ISBN13: 9780253016713
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Aug 24 2015
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the mixed towns of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel Monterescu argues that such places challenge our assumptions about cities and nationalism, calling into question the Israeli state's policy of maintaining homogeneous, segregated, and ethnically stable spaces. Analyzing everyday interactions, life stories, and histories of violence, he reveals the politics of gentrification and the circumstantial coalitions that define the city. Drawing on key theorists in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, and political science, he outlines a new relational theory of sociality and spatiality.

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