Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements
Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
ISBN: 978-1-032-88788-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world’s most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces.
Moving beyond the dominant focus on Jerusalem’s political and religious significance, this book examines how individuals and communities navigate the complex realities of emplacement within the Old City’s dense and shifting environment. Through a unique combination of biographical narratives and spatial sociology, the chapters investigate how personal life stories intersect with urban space, family ties, political occupation, religious identity, and social hierarchies. From small neighbourhood dynamics and the challenges faced by Palestinians in the enlarged Jewish Quarter, to the involuntary emplacement of international monks, the book uncovers the diverse ways inhabitants experience belonging, exclusion, and adaptation in Jerusalem’s Old City. It also traces the city’s evolving socio-political landscape since 1948, offering a rich, historically informed account of daily life under occupation and intercommunal tension.
A significant contribution to urban studies, Middle East studies, and the sociology of space, this book is essential reading for scholars of Jerusalem, conflict studies, and the lived experiences of divided cities.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Jerusalem’s Old City: The Burden of Biography and Ülace
Historical transformations in the Old City
Biography and emplacement
Old City research spaces
Emplacements in Jerusalem’s Old City
Emplacements in biographical trajectories: Constriction, expansion, constancy
Structure of the book
Bibliography
2. Emplacement: Understanding the Link between Biography and Place
Introduction to sociological biographical research
Places: Processual, historical and co-constituted by actors
The perception of places
Emplacement as a biographical perspective
The research process: Research spaces and emplacements
Bibliography
3. A Brief History of East Jerusalem since 1948
Jordanian rule, 1948-1967
The Israeli occupation from 1967
The First Intifada
Increasing control of the Palestinians in Jerusalem
East Jerusalem’s current situation
Bibliography
4. Jerusalem’s Old City: Historical Discussions, Recent History and Current Situation
Jerusalem and the debate about Islamic cities
Different interpretations in historical publications of living together in Jerusalem
How the Old City became a place of outsiders
The Old City of Jerusalem in the Present: Research and Data
Bibliography
5. Community as Challenge and Chance: Emplacements in a Small Neighbourhood
Everyday life and negotiations in the small neighbourhood
Hafez Fuqaha: “Jerusalem doesn’t leave its people”
Muhammad Najjar: Withdrawn from the neighbourhood
Sana Haddad: Seeking neighbourhood community
Bibliography
6. The Toll of Spatial and Biographical Isolation: Palestinian Emplacement in the “Enlarged Jewish Quarter”
Historical outline
Collective memories about past neighbourhoods
Talking to Palestinians in the enlarged Jewish Quarter
Huda Saifi: “I look like Jerusalem with its sadness, brokenness and its defeats”
Amal Abu Sneineh and her son Lutfi: “Millions will die here”
Subhi Amro: “I can’t leave the Old City”
Bibliography
7. Involuntary Emplacement in the Holy City: International Monks in the Old City of Jerusalem
Interviewing monks
Brother Michel: “All my plans were not the plans God had for me”
Brother Macarius: “I’d like to go to another place”
Brother Jean: “I know how to live in such an environment”
Bibliography
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
NOTES
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise noted.
