Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

by Rabinowitz,Dan

• ISBN13: 9780754647324
• ISBN10: 0754647323
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This excellent volume opens up an entirely new angle of vision on relations among Jews and Palestinians in Israel. By exploring the connections between urban space, nationhood, and modernity, it treats so-called mixed towns" as both a metaphor for and an expression of the tensile sociology of the country at large. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Middle East, past and present." Professor John Comaroff, University of Chicago, USA While there has been a considerable surge in research into numerous aspects of Israel and Palestine over the last two decades, this is the first volume to identify and focus on ''mixed'' towns, where Arabs and Jews have been interacting for decades in workplaces, residential areas, commerce, culture and politics. This book provides theoretically informed analysis based on original research using innovative methodologies and in doing so, explores how national identity, urban space, gender relations and cultural encounters are represented and produced in ethnically divided spaces. Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed. In many ways, their success lies in the richness of their ethnic variety and ongoing exchange of cultural traits and ideas, but this mixture is not necessarily harmonious. Focussing not on capital cities or the holy sites which are so heavily associated with Middle Eastern Urban space, but on Palestinian-Israeli mixed towns, this book theorizes the relationship between modernity, the concept of the nation and the dynamics which engender and characterize the growth of urban spaces. In these mixed towns, Arabs and Jews have been interacting for decades in workplaces, residential areas, commerce, culture and politics. A new generation of Israeli, Palestinian and other scholars come together to question whether these towns are perceived as utopian or dystopian and whether they are best portrayed as divided, polarized, contested or colonial cities. In doing so, they explore how national identity, urban space, gender relations and cultural encounters are represented and produced in ethnically divided spaces. Contents: Preface; Introduction: the transformation of urban mix in Palestine/Israel in the modern era, Dan Rabinowitz and Daniel Monterescu; Part 1 History, Representation and Collective Memory: Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city, Salim Tamari; ''They just left'': Israeli Haifo''im grapple with the memory of Palestinian Haifawi''yye, Dan Rabinowitz; ''We were living in a different country'': Palestinian nostalgia and the future past, Jasmin Habib; Cross-national collective action in Palestine''s mixed towns: the 1946 civil servants strike, David de Vries; How is a mixed city to be administered? Haifa''s municipality at the end of the British Mandate, Tamir Goren. Part 2 Spatial Dynamics: Ethnic Urban Mix and its Contradictions: From urban panopticism to spatial protest: the case of the ''mixed town'' of Lydda, Haim Yacobi; Heteronomy: the cultural logic of space in Jaffa, Daniel Monterescu; A nixed not mixed town: social, cultural and political trends in the Nazareth/Nazerat Illit conurbation, Laurie King-Irani; Haifa: the politics of seeing, Ra''ef Zreik. Part 3 Gendered Perspectives on Mixed Spaces: Contested contact: proximity and social control in pre-1948 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv, Debbie Bernstein; Mixed towns as places of choice: residential preferences of Palestinian women, Hanna Herzog. Part 4 Cultural Encounters and Civil Society: Ethnicized civil society: discursive motifs in Jewish-Arab grassroots activism in Jaffa, Amalia Sa''ar; Nationalism, religion and urban politics in Israel: struggles over modernity and identity in ''global'' Jaffa, Mark Levine; Mixed as in pidgin: the vanishing Arabic of a bilingual city, Anton Shammas; Index. About the Author: Dr Daniel Monterescu, Departmento f Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest. Dan Rabinowitz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

acknowledgements

Introduction

Marxist perspectives on South Korea in the global economy

Martin Hart-Landsberg

Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra

Marxian Method and South Korean Capitalism

Introduction

Trend of Marxian ratios in Korea: 1970-2003

Seongjin Jeong

Estimating sectoral rates of surplus value: methodological issues

Rieu Dong-Min

State, market, and stages of capitalism in South Korean development

Richard Westra

The South Korean Economy in Global Perspective

Introduction

China and the dynamics of transnational capital accumulation

Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett

Changing patterns of accumulation and realization in East Asia since the 1990s

Joseph Halevi and Peter Kriesler

The South Korean Economy in Historical Perspectives

Introduction

Land reform and capitalist development in Korea

Sang-Hwan Jang

A critical appraisal of economic achievements under the Park Chung Hee system

Soohaeng Kim and Seung-Ho Park

The South Korean Economy into the Future

Introduction

The South Korean economy: problems and prospects

Martin Hart-Landsberg

When capital becomes society: the re-composition of capitalist work and new labor activism in Korea

Dae-oup Chang

Appendix: major political and economic events in Korea

1945-2006

English language references

Korean language references

Japanese language references

Index

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