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Author:   Daniel Monterescu
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.594kg
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9780253016775

ISBN 10:   0253016770
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   24 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Contrived Coexistence: Relational Histories of Urban Mix in Israel/Palestine Part I. Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Communal Formations and Ambivalent Belonging 1. Spatial Relationality: Theorizing Space and Sociality in Jewish-Arab ""Mixed Towns"" 2. The Bridled ""Bride of Palestine"": Urban Orientalism and the Zionist Quest for Place 3. The ""Mother of the Stranger"": Palestinian Presence and the Ambivalence of Sumud Part II. Sharing Place or Consuming Space: The Neoliberal City 4. Inner Space and High Ceilings: Agents and Ideologies of Ethnogentrification 5. To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the Gated Community Part III. Being and Belonging in the Binational City: A Phenomenology of the Urban 6. Escaping the Mythscape: Tales of Intimacy and Violence 7. Situational Radicalism and Creative Marginality: The ""Arab Spring"" and Jaffa's Counterculture Conclusion: The City of the Forking Paths: Imagining the Futures of Binational Urbanism Notes References Index"

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For anyone who would like to understand the experience of living as a member of the minority Arab population in a 'mixed' city in Israel, then Jaffa is both the place and the study to read... [T]his is a well-researched, very worthwhile excursus into a complicated societal problem... Highly recommended. -Choice Jaffa Shared and Shattered is a rich and provocative addition to the scholarly literature on Palestine/ Israel and urban studies. -American Ethnologist A groundbreaking ethnography of hope and despair intertwined. This brilliant book is a rare accomplishment that could have been written only by a participant observer who is intimately familiar with Palestinian and Israeli societies alike. Monterescu's argument proves beyond any doubt that a relational sociology does more justice to the study of ethnically mixed cities and to urbanism at large than traditional methodological nationalism. A major and incisive contribution. -Benoit Challand, author of Palestinian Civil Society:Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude Jaffa is a phenomenal laboratory for recycling human diversity into human togetherness, and Monterescu's study is a phenomenal account of this in many ways unique experience: a thought-provoking, faithful portrayal of tensions, trials, and tribulations, but also the joys of conviviality and the unbridled creative potential of a multicultural and multiethnic city. -Zygmunt Bauman, author of Modernity and Ambivalence Jaffa is arguably the most lamented and exoticized city of pre-war Palestine. In this extensive investigation into 'the cultural logic of urban mix' in contemporary Jaffa, Daniel Monterescu succeeds in achieving two outstanding objectives: a sober assessment of its imagined past and a provocative vision of the city's 'binational' present and future. This book is essential reading for those who need to understand the processes of gentrification and ethnic conflict in thisbeleaguered city. -Salim Tamari, author of Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighbourhoods and Their Fate in the War Monterescu has carved out a domain all his own in the scholarship about minorities, ethnic conflict, and inter-ethnic relations. In this great book he once again helps us see dimensions easily overlooked in much scholarship. -Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy Based on intimate knowledge of Jaffa and its Jewish and Arabcommunities, and armed with both rich theoretical knowledge and human empathy, Daniel Monterescugoes back to the town of his childhood to tell uson Jews and Arabs who share thismixed town. He touches brilliantly the spaces in whichthe political and the personal melt into one and moments where the borders between members of national communities mist. This is not another book about the Other but rather a book on Us -members of two national communities who,during a conflict,willingly or against their will, share one space and create, tell, recreate and retell their own storyand their own lives. -Hillel Cohen, author of Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 Monterescu elaborates in nine eloquent chapters how retaining Jaffa's distinctive Arabness has been a century-long dialectical struggle at five key junctures for Palestinian residents. The present juncture, characterized by creeping gentrification, perhaps poses the most incommensurable challenges yet. As Monterescu argues, the Israeli state's neo-liberal urban planning policy might appropriate the rhetoric of binationality and mutual recognition, but in practice involves the collusion of Jewish gentrifiers and Palestinian capitalist agents that perpetuates a homogenizing, relational system of reciprocal oppositions. This book sets a high bar for future analyses of the politics of coexistence in Israel/Palestine. -Jennifer Robertson, author of Native and Newcomer:Making and Remaking a Japanese City

Based on intimate knowledge of Jaffa and its Jewish and Arabcommunities, and armed with both rich theoretical knowledge and human empathy, Daniel Monterescugoes back to the town of his childhood to tell uson Jews and Arabs who share thismixed town. He touches brilliantly the spaces in whichthe political and the personal melt into one and moments where the borders between members of national communities mist. This is not another book about the Other but rather a book on Us members of two national communities who, during a conflict, willingly or against their will, share one space and create, tell, recreate and retell their own storyand their own lives. Hillel Cohen, author of Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

A groundbreaking ethnography of hope and despair intertwined. This brilliant book is a rare accomplishment that could have been written only by a participant observer who is intimately familiar with Palestinian and Israeli societies alike. Monterescu's argument proves beyond any doubt that a relational sociology does more justice to the study of ethnically mixed cities and to urbanism at large than traditional methodological nationalism. A major and incisive contribution. -Benoit Challand, author of Palestinian Civil Society:Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude Jaffa is a phenomenal laboratory for recycling human diversity into human togetherness, and Monterescu's study is a phenomenal account of this in many ways unique experience: a thought-provoking, faithful portrayal of tensions, trials, and tribulations, but also the joys of conviviality and the unbridled creative potential of a multicultural and multiethnic city. -Zygmunt Bauman, author of Modernity and Ambivalence Jaffa is arguably the most lamented and exoticized city of pre-war Palestine. In this extensive investigation into 'the cultural logic of urban mix' in contemporary Jaffa, Daniel Monterescu succeeds in achieving two outstanding objectives: a sober assessment of its imagined past and a provocative vision of the city's 'binational' present and future. This book is essential reading for those who need to understand the processes of gentrification and ethnic conflict in thisbeleaguered city. -Salim Tamari, author of Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighbourhoods and Their Fate in the War Monterescu has carved out a domain all his own in the scholarship about minorities, ethnic conflict, and inter-ethnic relations. In this great book he once again helps us see dimensions easily overlooked in much scholarship. -Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy Based on intimate knowledge of Jaffa and its Jewish and Arabcommunities, and armed with both rich theoretical knowledge and human empathy, Daniel Monterescugoes back to the town of his childhood to tell uson Jews and Arabs who share thismixed town. He touches brilliantly the spaces in whichthe political and the personal melt into one and moments where the borders between members of national communities mist. This is not another book about the Other but rather a book on Us -members of two national communities who,during a conflict,willingly or against their will, share one space and create, tell, recreate and retell their own storyand their own lives. -Hillel Cohen, author of Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 Monterescu elaborates in nine eloquent chapters how retaining Jaffa's distinctive Arabness has been a century-long dialectical struggle at five key junctures for Palestinian residents. The present juncture, characterized by creeping gentrification, perhaps poses the most incommensurable challenges yet. As Monterescu argues, the Israeli state's neo-liberal urban planning policy might appropriate the rhetoric of binationality and mutual recognition, but in practice involves the collusion of Jewish gentrifiers and Palestinian capitalist agents that perpetuates a homogenizing, relational system of reciprocal oppositions. This book sets a high bar for future analyses of the politics of coexistence in Israel/Palestine. -Jennifer Robertson, author of Native and Newcomer:Making and Remaking a Japanese City [T]his is a well-researched, very worthwhile excursus into a complicated societal problem... Highly recommended. -Choice

[M]akes a convincing case that a relational sociology does more justice to the study of ethnically mixed cities than the traditional methodological nationalism.... This is an important contribution to scholarship, not just for anthropology but also for political science, history, and sociology. Benoit Challand, author of Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude

Author Information

Daniel Monterescu is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University. He is author (with Haim Hazan) of A Town at Sundown: Aging Nationalism in Jaffa and editor (with Dan Rabinowitz) of Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns.

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