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Urbicide in Palestine

Spaces of Oppression and Resilience

By Nurhan Abujidi

To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge – 224 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

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Description

This book explores the way urbicide is used to un/re-make the Palestinian territoriality/urbanity as well as a tool of spatial dispossession and control. It also examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial projects in the Middle East. The book demonstrates how the dilution or negation of the Israeli politics of control, surveillance and destruction in the occupied Palestinian Territories potentially produce other modes of Palestinian resistance throughout the every day tactics, commemoration and reconstruction projects.

Contents

Part I: Introduction 1 Urban Destruction, urbicide and surveillance, Theoretical Inquiry Part II: Place Making 2 Urban Reality Development in Historical Perspective 3 Nablus Old Town Identity: Urban Analysis 4 Nablus Old Town Identity: Perceptions, Meanings & Inhabitants’ Cognitive Maps Part III: Place Unmaking 5 History of Urban/Territorial Destruction in Palestine 1948-2002 6 The Urbicide of Nablus Part IV: Place Remaking 7 Post-Urbicide resilience: Towards Formulating an Approach 8 Scenario for spatial fragmentations: A formulation of Post-Urbicide Strategy towards New Identity Part V: General Conclusion

Author Bio

Nurhan Abujidi has been Professor of Urban Desgin, International Relations and Research Coordinator at the School of Architecture, San Jorge Univeristy since 2011. She is also a senior associate researcher at COSMOPOLIS city culture and sociecty at Vrije Univeristy of Brussels.

Name: Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Nurhan Abujidi. This book explores the way urbicide is used to un/re-make the Palestinian territoriality/urbanity as well as a tool of spatial dispossession and control. It also examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial projects...
Categories: Middle East Studies, Middle East Politics, Urban Geography, Political Geography, Middle East Geography, Middle East Politics