Mixed towns, trapped communities. Historical narratives, spatial dynamics, gender relations and cultural encounters in Palestinian-Israeli towns

Abstract

Contents Preface and Acknowlegments vii Introduction: The Transformation of Urban Mix in Palestine/Israel in the Modern Era 1 (34) Dan Rabinowitz

Daniel Monterescu

Part 1 History, Representation and Collective Memory

Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City 35 (16) Salim Tamari

'The Arabs Just Left': Othering and the Construction of Self amongst Jews in Haifa Before and After 1948 51 (14) Dan Rabinowitz

``We Were Living in a Different Country'': Palestinian Nostalgia and the Future Past 65 (20) Jasmin Habib

Cross-National Collective Action in Palestine's Mixed Towns: The 1946 Civil Servants Strike 85 (28) David De Vries

How is a Mixed Town to be Administered? Haifa's Municipal Council, 1940--1947 113 (22) Tamir Goren

Part 2 Spatial Dynamics: Ethnic Urban Mix and its Contradictions

Planning, Control and Spatial Protest: The Case of the Jewish-Arab Town of Lydd/Lod 135 (22) Haim Yacobi

Heteronomy: The Cultural Logic of Urban Space and Sociality in Jaffa 157 (22) Daniel Monterescu

A Nixed, not Mixed, City: Mapping Obstacles to Democracy in the Nazareth/Natzerat Illit Conurbation 179 (22) Laurie King-Irani

Exit From the Scene: Reflections on the Public Space of the Palestinians in Israel 201 (14) Raef Zreik

Part 3 Gendered Perspectives on Mixed Spaces

Contested Contact: Proximity and Social Control In Pre-1948 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv 215 (28) Deborah S. Bernstein

Mixed Cities as a Place of Choice: The Palestinian Women's Perspective 243 (18) Hanna Herzog

Part 4 Cultural Encounters and Civil Society

Cooperation and Conflict in the Zone of Civil Society: Arab-Jewish Activism in Jaffa 261 (20) Amalia Sa'ar

Nationalism, Religion and Urban Politics in Israel: Struggles Over Modernity and Identity in 'Global' Jaffa 281 (22) Mark LeVine

Mixed as in Pidgin: The Vanishing Arabic of a ``Bilingual'' City 303 (10) Anton Shammas

Index 313