Life after ruin : the struggles over Israel's depopulated Arab spaces / Noam Leshem.

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Leshem, Noam [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "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"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: tracing ruination
    • Toward a spatial history in Israel
    • Repopulating the emptiness: the spatiality and materiality of the overlooked
    • Fences and defences: spaces of emergency
    • On the road: from Salama to Kfar Shalem and back
    • Housing complex: between Arab houses and public tenaments
    • Sacred: the making and unmaking of a holy place
    • Conclusion: histories of the rough and charmless.
    ISBN
    • 9781107149472 ((hardback))
    • 1107149479 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016026757
    OCLC
    951557404
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