1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154726503321

Autore

Khazzoom Aziza

Titolo

Shifting ethnic boundaries and inequality in Israel : or, how the Polish peddler became a German intellectual / / Aziza Khazzoom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-8047-7957-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 344 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Studies in social inequality Shifting ethnic boundaries and inequality in Israel

Studies in social inequality

Disciplina

305.80095694

Soggetti

National characteristics, Israeli

Jews - Israel - Identity

Mizrahim - Israel

Ethnicity - Israel

Multiculturalism - Israel

Israel Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Some Historical Background -- Chapter Three. Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Ethnic Formation -- Chapter Four. Was Dichotomization Inevitable? -- Chapter Five. The Iraqi Paradox -- Chapter Six. How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual -- Chapter Seven. Cultural Capital -- Chapter Eight. Residential Segregation and Economic Isolation: The Moroccan Paradox -- Chapter Nine. Into the Next Generation -- Chapter Ten. Perspectives on Ethnic Formation -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolise scarce resources - good jobs or top educations - for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that racial and ethnic discrimination can also occur to preserve particular group identities. It



focuses on the early period of Israeli statehood to examine how the European Jewish founders treated Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815897703321

Titolo

Lessons of informality : architecture and urban planning for emerging territories : concepts from Ethiopia / / Felix Heisel, Bisrat Kifle (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-0356-0670-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

307.1216

Soggetti

City planning

City planning - Ethiopia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: From documentaries to architectural strategies -- Introduction: Informality in emerging territories -- Housing in an informally grown city -- Landownership and the leasehold system -- A “new” Addis Ababa -- The ruralization of urban centres in Ethiopia -- Social dynamics and development -- Persisting meaning and evolving spaces -- Bottom-up insurance systems -- The economic importance of recycling -- Microeconomies, a formalized strategy -- Addis Ababa, a rental city -- City preservation through tourism -- From density to intensity -- Materializing informality -- Building laws for innovation -- Decentralized infrastructural systems -- Spatial dialogic -- _Spaces / The documentary series -- Editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Ilustration credits

Sommario/riassunto

Informal settlements made up of corrugated iron shacks and other materials are a ubiquitous feature in the megacities of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In response to the enormous influx of migrants from the countryside, the informal city experienced a phenomenal growth. While rightly criticized for their lack of hygiene and for their low-level living



conditions, these shelters nevertheless provide planning strategies and possibly even a roadmap to a resilient city in an emerging territory. The unregistered economic activities associated with them proliferate in a similar way and basic urban services are increasingly provided informally. Examples of these economic phenomena are microloans, bottom-up insurance or professions such as the "Kuré-Yalew" (refuse collector), who acts as an "urban miner" and thus contributes a valuable service to the community by recycling materials.

Provisorisch gebaute Behausungen wie etwa Wellblechhütten sind in den Metropolen Afrikas, Asiens und Lateinamerikas allgegenwärtig. Oft kritisiert für die unhygienischen Lebensumstände, gelten diese ungeplant entstandenen Siedlungengleichwohl als vielschichtiges Element auf dem Weg zu einer resilienten Stadt. Solch urbane „Informalität" ist typisch für Schwellenländer, in denen heute ca. 68 % der Weltbevölkerung leben. Sie wird hier exemplarisch an Äthiopien und insbesondere Addis Abeba analysiert. Neben Ansätzen für den Wohnungsbau stellt das Buch auch ökonomische Strukturen vor: Mikrokreditwesen, „bottom-up"-Versicherungssysteme oder Berufe wie der „Kuré-Yalew" (Müllsammler), der im Sinne des „Urban Mining" einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Wiederverwendung von Abfallstoffen leistet.