05503nam 2201117 450 991082848700332120200520144314.010.1515/9781782385844(CKB)2670000000613701(EBL)1707819(SSID)ssj0001499694(PQKBManifestationID)11837683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001499694(PQKBWorkID)11514413(PQKB)11520691(MiAaPQ)EBC1707819(Au-PeEL)EBL1707819(CaPaEBR)ebr11051434(CaONFJC)MIL778725(OCoLC)908336445(DE-B1597)637421(DE-B1597)9781782385844(EXLCZ)99267000000061370120150514h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUrban violence in the Middle East changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state /edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]New York, New York ;Oxford, England :Berghahn,2015.©20151 online resource (333 p.)Space and Place ;v.14Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-583-5 1-78238-584-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 DezfulChapter 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 CityChapter 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; IndexCovering 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 formaSpace and PlaceUrban violenceMiddle EastHistorySociology, UrbanMiddle EastHistoryCity and town lifeMiddle EastHistoryCommunity lifeMiddle EastHistoryPolitical cultureMiddle EastHistoryPetroleum industry and tradeSocial aspectsMiddle EastHistorySocial changeMiddle EastHistoryMiddle EastSocial conditionsMiddle EastPolitics and governmentMiddle EastColonial influence18th century.big oil.cairo.changing cityscape.city life.cityscapes.contemporary politics.current politics.diplomacy.fossil fuel.historical.history.middle eastern history.middle eastern politics.nation states.oil industry.ottoman empire.political science.qajar.revolutionaries.sociology.textbook.understanding violence.urban violence.violence.war and insurgencies.wartime.Urban violenceHistory.Sociology, UrbanHistory.City and town lifeHistory.Community lifeHistory.Political cultureHistory.Petroleum industry and tradeSocial aspectsHistory.Social changeHistory.303.60956Freitag UlrikeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828487003321Urban violence in the Middle East4047352UNINA