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- Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
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- 2015
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
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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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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xv
- Part One: Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Communal Formations and Ambivalent Belonging
- Part Two: Sharing Place or Consuming Space: The Neoliberal City
- Part Three: Being and Belonging in the Binational City: A Phenomenology of the Urban
- References
- pp. 329-342
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