1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788290203321

Titolo

Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Space and Place ; ; v.14

Disciplina

303.60956

Soggetti

Urban violence - Middle East - History

Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History

City and town life - Middle East - History

Community life - Middle East - History

Political culture - Middle East - History

Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History

Social change - Middle East - History

Middle East Social conditions

Middle East Politics and government

Middle East Colonial influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful

Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 -



The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City

Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires - Ottoman and Qajar, but also European - to the forma



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300539403321

Autore

Keser Aydın Cem

Titolo

Classical Analogies in the Solution of Quantum Many-Body Problems / / by Aydın Cem Keser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-030-00488-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

530.144

Soggetti

Superconductivity

Superconductors

Phase transformations (Statistical physics)

Condensed matter

Mechanics

Physics

Mathematical physics

Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity

Quantum Gases and Condensates

Classical Mechanics

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Mathematical Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Long Range p-Wave Proximity Effect into a Disordered Metal -- Chapter3. Analogue Stochastic Gravity in Strongly Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates -- Chapter4. Dynamical Many-Body Localization in an Integrable Model -- Chapter5. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses problems in three main developments in modern condensed matter physics– namely topological superconductivity, many-body localization and strongly interacting condensates/superfluids–by employing fruitful analogies from classical



mechanics. This strategy has led to tangible results, firstly in superconducting nanowires: the density of states, a smoking gun for the long sought Majorana zero mode is calculated effortlessly by mapping the problem to a textbook-level classical point particle problem. Secondly, in localization theory even the simplest toy models that exhibit many-body localization are mathematically cumbersome and results rely on simulations that are limited by computational power. In this book an alternative viewpoint is developed by describing many-body localization in terms of quantum rotors that have incommensurate rotation frequencies, an exactly solvable system. Finally, the fluctuations in a strongly interacting Bose condensate and superfluid, a notoriously difficult system to analyze from first principles, are shown to mimic stochastic fluctuations of space-time due to quantum fields. This analogy not only allows for the computation of physical properties of the fluctuations in an elegant way, it sheds light on the nature of space-time. The book will be a valuable contribution for its unifying style that illuminates conceptually challenging developments in condensed matter physics and its use of elegant mathematical models in addition to producing new and concrete results.