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Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from
Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book
explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity
as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.
This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of
identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in
the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both
historical and contemporary urban processes in the region.
Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of
political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local
and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in
the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no
attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in
the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are
also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to
highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are
understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure,
participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a
variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant
contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource
for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and
Urban Studies of the Middle East.
Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from
Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book
explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity
as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.
This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of
identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in
the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both
historical and contemporary urban processes in the region.
Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of
political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local
and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in
the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no
attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in
the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are
also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to
highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are
understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure,
participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a
variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant
contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource
for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and
Urban Studies of the Middle East.
The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship
to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist,
modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The
past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider knowledge
production on, and political profile of, the Naqab Bedouin. This
book addresses this change by firstly, endeavouring to overcome the
historic isolation of Naqab Bedouin studies from the rest of
Palestine studies by situating, studying and analyzing their
predicaments firmly within the contemporary context of Israeli
settler-colonial policies. Secondly, it strives to de-colonise
research and advocacy on the Naqab Bedouin, by, for example,
reclaiming 'indigenous' knowledge and terminology. Offering not
only a nuanced description and analysis of Naqab Bedouin agency and
activism, but also trying to draw broader conclusion as to the
functioning of settler-colonial power structures as well as to the
politics of research in such a context, this book is essential
reading for students and researchers with an interest in
Postcolonial Studies, Development Studies, Israel/Palestine Studies
and the contemporary Middle East more broadly.
The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship
to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist,
modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The
past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider knowledge
production on, and political profile of, the Naqab Bedouin. This
book addresses this change by firstly, endeavouring to overcome the
historic isolation of Naqab Bedouin studies from the rest of
Palestine studies by situating, studying and analyzing their
predicaments firmly within the contemporary context of Israeli
settler-colonial policies. Secondly, it strives to de-colonise
research and advocacy on the Naqab Bedouin, by, for example,
reclaiming 'indigenous' knowledge and terminology. Offering not
only a nuanced description and analysis of Naqab Bedouin agency and
activism, but also trying to draw broader conclusion as to the
functioning of settler-colonial power structures as well as to the
politics of research in such a context, this book is essential
reading for students and researchers with an interest in
Postcolonial Studies, Development Studies, Israel/Palestine Studies
and the contemporary Middle East more broadly.
Conventional wisdom positions the Bedouins in southern Palestine
and under Israeli military rule as victims or passive recipients.
In The Naqab Bedouins, Mansour Nasasra rewrites this narrative,
presenting them as active agents who, in defending their community
and culture, have defied attempts at subjugation and control. The
book challenges the notion of Bedouin docility under Israeli
military rule and today, showing how they have contributed to
shaping their own destiny. The Naqab Bedouins represents the first
attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last
century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli
military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its
broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in the
region and beyond. Nasasra recounts the Naqab Bedouin history of
political struggle and resistance to central authority. Nonviolent
action and the strength of kin-based tribal organization helped the
Bedouins assert land claims and call for the right of return to
their historical villages. Through primary sources and oral
history, including detailed interviews with local indigenous
Bedouins and with Israeli and British officials, Nasasra shows how
this Bedouin community survived strict state policies and military
control and positioned itself as a political actor in the region.
Conventional wisdom positions the Bedouins in southern Palestine
and under Israeli military rule as victims or passive recipients.
In The Naqab Bedouins, Mansour Nasasra rewrites this narrative,
presenting them as active agents who, in defending their community
and culture, have defied attempts at subjugation and control. The
book challenges the notion of Bedouin docility under Israeli
military rule and today, showing how they have contributed to
shaping their own destiny. The Naqab Bedouins represents the first
attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last
century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli
military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its
broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in the
region and beyond. Nasasra recounts the Naqab Bedouin history of
political struggle and resistance to central authority. Nonviolent
action and the strength of kin-based tribal organization helped the
Bedouins assert land claims and call for the right of return to
their historical villages. Through primary sources and oral
history, including detailed interviews with local indigenous
Bedouins and with Israeli and British officials, Nasasra shows how
this Bedouin community survived strict state policies and military
control and positioned itself as a political actor in the region.
From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of
'Peace' provides original analyses of how different coping
strategies were developed as well as new forms of political
expression, interaction, and mobilization since the 1993 peace deal
between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Its
premise is that an historical realism is essential in order to
develop a route out of the post-Oslo impasse that extended and
solidified the power imbalance under the auspices of 'peace'. The
book includes chapters from experts across the disciplines of
anthropology, economics, law, political science and sociology to
map out and critically assess the impacts and responses to this
'peace' in different geographical and political settings. These
innovative analyses also investigate processes that might enable a
future to be built based on greater equality and an end to the
oppression and violence that currently exists between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond).
From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of
'Peace' provides original analysis of how communities have
developed coping strategies and created foundations for new forms
of political expression, interaction, and mobilization since the
1993 peace deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization and
Israel. Its premise is that an historical realism is essential in
order to develop a route out of the post-Oslo impasse that
incubated and expanded a massive asymmetric power contrast under
the auspices of 'peace'. The book brings together experts from
Palestine, Israel, and further afield, and from across the
disciplines of law, economics, political science, and anthropology
to map out and critically assess the impacts and responses to this
'peace' in different geographical and political settings. These
innovative analyses also investigate processes that might enable a
future to be built based on greater equality and an end to the
oppression and violence that currently exists between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond).
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