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

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.60956
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Social conditions; Middle East Politics and government; Middle East Colonial influence
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): FreitagUlrike
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban violence in the Middle East
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463561203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Space and Place