Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies

ISBN-13: 9780367255107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 260 str.

Hilal Alkan; Nazan Maksudyan

Opis

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.　It departs from ‘neighbourhoods’ to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and violence in relations to a place.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Borders: Material, Temporal and Conceptual Boundaries of Neighborhoods  1. What Makes a Township a Neighbourhood? The Case of Eldorado Park, Johannesburg  2. Killing Time in a Roma Neighborhood: Habitus and Precariousness in a Small Town in Western Turkey  3. Of Basti and Bazaar: Place Making and Women's Lives in Nizamuddin, Delhi  Part II: Stories: Neighbourhoods as Imagined and Narrated Entities  4. Two Tales of a Neighbourhood: Eyüp as a Stage for the Ottoman Conquest and Turkish War of Independence  5. Past Neighbourhoods: Palestinians and Jerusalem's ‘enlarged Jewish Quarter’  6. Where is Alexandria? Myths of the City and the Anti-city after Cosmopolitanism  7. Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Late-Ottoman City Centre  Part III: Intimacies: Neighbourhoods as Sources and Objects of Claim-making  8. Violence, Temporality and Sociality in a Kashmiri Neighbourhood  9. Syrian Migration and Logics of Alterity in an Istanbul Neighbourhood  10. Negotiating Solidarity and Conflict within a Neighbourhood: Gülsuyu-Gülensu and the Scale of Politics  11. Urban Tectonics and Lifestyles in Motion: Affective and Spatial Negotiations of Belonging in Tophane, Istanbul  12. The Basij of Neighbourhood: Techniques of Government and Local Sociality in Bandar Abbas