LEADER 04596nam 2200769 450 001 9910463561203321 005 20200520144314.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000613701 035 $a(EBL)1707819 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001499694 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11837683 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001499694 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11514413 035 $a(PQKB)11520691 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1707819 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1707819 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11051434 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL778725 035 $a(OCoLC)908336445 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000613701 100 $a20150514h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aUrban violence in the Middle East $echanging cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state /$fedited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] 210 1$aNew York, New York ;$aOxford, England :$cBerghahn,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (333 p.) 225 1 $aSpace and Place ;$vv.14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78238-583-5 311 $a1-78238-584-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUrban 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 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aCovering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires - Ottoman and Qajar, but also European - to the forma 410 0$aSpace and Place 606 $aUrban violence$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aSociology, Urban$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aCity and town life$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aCommunity life$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aPolitical culture$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$xSocial aspects$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$zMiddle East$xHistory 607 $aMiddle East$xSocial conditions 607 $aMiddle East$xPolitics and government 607 $aMiddle East$xColonial influence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUrban violence$xHistory. 615 0$aSociology, Urban$xHistory. 615 0$aCity and town life$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunity life$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 676 $a303.60956 702 $aFreitag$b Ulrike 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463561203321 996 $aUrban violence in the Middle East$92041465 997 $aUNINA