This book, based on extensive historical research and anthropological fieldwork in contemporary Jerusalem, details the multiple ways in which space, identity, and alterity are experienced, produced and contested by the habitants of this conflicted urban center. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; 3JMG; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012 (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0815633483
ISBN 13: 9780815633488
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, <i>Colonial Jerusalem </i>explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often suggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates everyday life under Israel’s long military occupation as it is defined by processes and conditions of "apartness" and separation as Palestinians are increasingly regulated and controlled. Abowd examines how both national communities are progressively divided by walls, checkpoints, and separate road networks in one of the most segregated cities in the world. Drawing upon recent theories on racial politics, colonialism, and urban spatial dynamics, Colonial Jerusalem analyzes the politics of myth, history, and memory across an urban landscape integral to the national cosmologies of both Palestinians and Israelis and meaningful to all communities.

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<b>Thomas Philip Abowd</b> is a lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures at Tufts University.

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