Life after Ruin :The Struggles over Israel's Depopulated Arab Spaces ( Cambridge Middle East Studies )

Publication subTitle :The Struggles over Israel's Depopulated Arab Spaces

Publication series :Cambridge Middle East Studies

Author: Noam Leshem  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781316842416

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107149472

Subject: D815.4 Middle East and the question of Palestine

Keyword: 历史、地理

Language: ENG

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Life after Ruin

Description

Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the landscape of Israel-Palestine was radically transformed. Breaking from conventional focus on explicit sites of violence and devastation, Noam Leshem turns critical attention to 'ordinary' spaces and places where the intricate and often intimate engagements between Jews and myriad Arab spaces takes place to this day. Leshem builds on interdisciplinary studies of space, memory, architecture and history and exposes a rich archive of ideology, culture, political projects of state-building and identity formation. The result is a fresh look at the conflicted history of Israel-Palestine: a spatial history in which the Arab past isn't in fact separate, but inextricably linked to the Israeli present.

Chapter

Positions: Spatial Transformation in an Ethno-National Conflict

Materials: Methodologies and Practices of Spatial History

Chapter Outline

The Inevitability of Looking Back

2 Repopulating the Emptiness

Living Ruins

Encounter

A Densely Populated Emptiness

Unsettled Ruins

Archaeology of the Surface

3 Fences and Defences

The Space of Emergency

A Genealogy of Emergency

Illicit Pioneers: The Legacy of Emergency

The Law of the Land: Reflections on the Spatial Afterlife of Emergency

4 On the Road

Roadside Assistance: Space-Time Narratives

In the Name of Power: Historical and Comparative Framework

“Old Habits Die Hard”: Ambiguity, Fear and the Impediments of Spatial Control

The Other Side of Town: A Spatial History of City Borders

Dead-End Streets

Salama in Parenthesis: Some Thoughts on Patterns of Containment

5 Housing Complex

The Housing Block: Morphology and Ideology

Blocking the Border: Tenements and the Formation of an Urban Frontier

Containment

Blocked In: Segregation and Disillusionment

Conclusion

6 Sacred

Synagogues: Consecration and the Rituals of Space

Salama Mosque: Deconsecration, Conservation and the Looming Set-Apart

Rupture

Aftermaths

Conclusion

Conjoining Pasts and the Challenge of Space

Spatial History: Alternative (to) Memory?

“For Life and Action”: The Future of Spatial History

Bibliography

Archives and Collections

List of Sources

Index

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