Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State

By: FREITAG, UlrikeContributor(s): FUCCARO, Nelida | GHRAWI, Claudia | LAFI, NoraMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Space and Place ; 14Publication details: New York Berghahn Books 2015 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Political violence--Middle East--History | Urban violence--Middle East--History | Violence--Middle East--History
Contents:
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation StateClaudia Ghrawi, Fatemeh Masjedi, Nelida Fuccaro, Ulrike FreitagPart I: Managing and Employing ViolenceChapter 1. Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in CairoNora LafiChapter 2. A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman IstanbulNoémi Lévy-AksuChapter 3. Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar EgyptHanan HammadPart II: Symbolic Politics of ViolenceChapter 4. Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of DezfulReza Masoudi NejadChapter 5. Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahUlrike FreitagPart III: Communal Violence and its DiscontentsChapter 6. The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian ArgumentationsFeras KrimstiChapter 7. The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96Florian RiedlerChapter 8. Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920Roberto MazzaPart IV: Oil Cities: Spatiality and ViolenceChapter 9. On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil CityRasmus Christian EllingChapter 10. Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and its Oil Conurbation, 1927-1958Nelida FuccaroChapter 11. Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-1956Claudia GhrawiAfterword: Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on CairoKhaled AdhamNotes on ContributorsBibliography
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation StateClaudia Ghrawi, Fatemeh Masjedi, Nelida Fuccaro, Ulrike FreitagPart I: Managing and Employing ViolenceChapter 1. Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in CairoNora LafiChapter 2. A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman IstanbulNoémi Lévy-AksuChapter 3. Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar EgyptHanan HammadPart II: Symbolic Politics of ViolenceChapter 4. Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of DezfulReza Masoudi NejadChapter 5. Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahUlrike FreitagPart III: Communal Violence and its DiscontentsChapter 6. The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian ArgumentationsFeras KrimstiChapter 7. The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96Florian RiedlerChapter 8. Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920Roberto MazzaPart IV: Oil Cities: Spatiality and ViolenceChapter 9. On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil CityRasmus Christian EllingChapter 10. Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and its Oil Conurbation, 1927-1958Nelida FuccaroChapter 11. Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-1956Claudia GhrawiAfterword: Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on CairoKhaled AdhamNotes on ContributorsBibliography