1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793621703321

Titolo

Routledge handbook on Middle East cities / / edited by Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nasasra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-317-23118-X

1-315-62516-4

1-317-23117-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 pages)

Collana

Routledge Handbooks

Disciplina

307.760956

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Middle East

Urbanization - Middle East

Urban policy - Middle East

City planning - Middle East

Sociology, Urban - Middle East

Middle East Social conditions 21st century

Middle East Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : cities in the Middle East : beyond "middle easternism" / Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nnasasra -- In the eyes of some Britons : Aleppo, a cosmpolitan city / Mohammad Sakhnini -- The making of Tehran : the incremental encroachment of modernity / M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat -- Dotting urban spaces : Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca / André Levy -- Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem : a comparative discussion / Chen Misgav and Gilly Hartal -- The home in the Middle Eastern city : a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa / Tovi Fenster -- Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction : is the present an aberration? / Yasmeen El Khoudary -- Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space : the case of Haifa / Yara Hawari -- Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city : Bedouin networks



with Gaza, Jerusalem and Istanbul / Mansour Nasasra -- Understanding the materiality of suspicion : affective politics in MENA cities / Mark Levine and Maria Frederika Malmström -- Borders, boundaries and frontiers : on Jerusalem's present geopolitics / Haim Yacobi -- "A demarcation in the hearts" : everyday urban frontiers in Beirut / Sara Fregonese -- Tourism and urbanism in Iran : top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian Region / Pamela Karimi -- The politics of building in post-revolution Tehran / Azadeh Meshayekhi -- Revisiting Sanaa's urban planning and development challenges / Wafa al-Daily -- Marrakesh : a fresh perspective : moving from a form-based planning to a value-based approach / Iqbal Khaiy -- Securitisation of urban electricity supply : a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon / Eric Verdeil -- The rise of a Saharan city : urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune / Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum -- Rethinking "building resilience" : conflict and the Middle East city / Bruce Stanley -- Erasing Palimpsest city : boom, bust and urbicide in Turkey / Kerem Öktem -- Hebron : challenging the "urbicide" / Marion Lecoquierre -- The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq : internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in Duhok / Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks -- Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? / Salam Arabi Katbi -- Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah / Kareem Rabie -- Political economy of tourism development in the Gulf : the cases of Muscat and Doha / Angeline Turner.

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. Moving beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299799703321

Titolo

Eastern Europe in 1968 : Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion / / edited by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319770697

3319770691

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages)

Disciplina

940.09717

Soggetti

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

Europe - History - 1492-

World politics

World War, 1939-1945

History, Modern

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

History of Modern Europe

Political History

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. The Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion Through the Soviet and East European Lens; Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe -- 2. For a Civic Socialism and the Rule of Law: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Public Opinion and Dissent in Czechoslovakia, 1960s-1980s; Kieran Williams and James Krapfl -- 3. The 'Anti-Prague Spring': Neo-Stalinist and Ultra-Leftist Extremism in Czechoslovakia, 1968-70; Kevin McDermott and Vítězslav Sommer -- 4. The Impact of the Prague Spring on the USSR; Zbigniew Wojnowski -- 5.Ideological Offensive: The East German Leadership, the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact



Invasion of August 1968; Matthew Stibbe -- 6. 'To Hell with Sovereignty!': Poland and the Prague Spring; Tony Kemp-Welch -- 7. Hungary 1968: Reform and the Challenge of the Prague Spring; Csaba Békés -- 8. 1968: A Bulgarian Perspective; Jordan Baev -- 9. Ceauşescu's Finest Hour? Memorialising Romanian Responses to the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia; Calin Goina -- 10. The 'June Events': The 1968 Student Protests in Yugoslavia; Kenneth Morrison -- 11. 1968: The Prague Spring and the Albanian 'Castle'; Ana Lalaj -- 12. Echoes of the Prague Spring in the Soviet Baltic Republics; Irēna Saleniece and Iveta Šķiņķe -- 13. 'Down with Revisionism and Irredentism': The Impact of the Prague Spring on Soviet Moldavia; Igor Caşu -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubček's reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European '1968' was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past. .