Contested Holy Cities: The Urban Dimension of Religious Conflicts

ISBN-13: 9780367027353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 222 str.

Michael Dumper

Opis

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those concerned with this increasingly urgent phenomenon.

Spis treści

Part I Overview: Urban Dimensions of Religious Conflict Introduction: The Urban Dimension of Religious Conflicts Chapter 1: Contextualising Urban Religious Conflicts - How Do Cities Shape Conflicts? Chapter 2: Crisis in Galasi - Simulating the Urban Dimensions of Religious Conflict Part II Genealogies of Urban Conflict Chapter 3: Vishweshwur Temple and Gyan Vapi Mosque: Entangled Histories in Banaras Chapter 4: Managing Conflict amidst Development and Developmentalism - George Town, Penang Chapter 5: Jerusalem’s Ramadan Fridays: Pilgrimage through the Bottlenecks of Occupation Chapter 6: Hebron - Holy and Divided Part III Conflict Management and Resolution Chapter 7: Protecting Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict - the Work of the Blue Shield Chapter 8: Swimming in Dark Waters - Recent Conservation in Afghanistan Chapter 9: The Protection of Cultural Heritage: The Experience of the Italian Carabinieri Command Chapter 10: The Protection of Religious Sites in the Western Balkans – Some Lessons from Recent History.

O autorze

Michael Dumper is Professor in Middle East Politics, University of Exeter. His research is primarily on the Arab-Israeli conflict, especially future options for Palestinian refugees and the city of Jerusalem, and the politics of archaeology and conservation in the urban Middle East. In addition to most recent book, Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History and the Future of the Holy City (2014) he is author of The Future of the Palestinian Refugees: Towards Equity and Peace (2007); The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem and the Middle East Conflict, 1967-2000, (2001); The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967 (1997); editor of Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2006). He is currently holder of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2015-2018) comparing religious conflicts in cities and preparing another manuscript for publication  in 2019.