ISBN:
9781137316882
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.80091732
Schlagwort(e):
Sociology, Urban
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings together key themes that dominate our current attention including emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities and the effects of extreme and/or enduring conflicts upon ordinary civilian life.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Spatial Horizons -- 2 Spatial Discontinuities: Conflict Infrastructures in Contested Cities -- 3 Violence and Urban Architecture: Events at the Ensemble of the Odessa Steps in 1904-1905 -- 4 Borderlands of the EU: The Spanish Enclave of Ceuta in Morocco -- 5 Security and the Holy Places of Jerusalem: The 'Hebronisation' of the Old City and Adjacent Areas -- Part II: Reassessing Divisions -- 6 Speaking in the Silence: Youthful Negotiations of Beirut's Post-War Spaces and Memories -- 7 Memorialising the 'Martyred City': Negotiating Vukovar's Wartime Past -- 8 Joint Israeli-Palestinian Political Activity in Jerusalem: Characteristics and Challenges -- 9 How Do Israeli (Jewish) Protest Groups Envision a Political Solution to the Jerusalem Question? -- Part III: Being Modern -- 10 Urban Planning and the Remaking of the Public Sphere in Ottoman Palestine -- 11 Imperial Ethnocracy and Demography: Foundations of Ethno-National Conflict in Belfast and Jerusalem -- 12 Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: Reflections on the Ordinary Spaces of Division and Unification in Berlin -- 13 Territorialities of Capital and Place in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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