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Author:   Hilal Alkan ,  Nazan Maksudyan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367255107

ISBN 10:   0367255103
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Part I: Borders: Material, Temporal and Conceptual Boundaries of Neighborhoods 1. What Makes a Township a Neighbourhood? The Case of Eldorado Park, Johannesburg 2. Killing Time in a Roma Neighborhood: Habitus and Precariousness in a Small Town in Western Turkey 3. Of Basti and Bazaar: Place Making and Women's Lives in Nizamuddin, Delhi Part II: Stories: Neighbourhoods as Imagined and Narrated Entities 4. Two Tales of a Neighbourhood: Eyüp as a Stage for the Ottoman Conquest and Turkish War of Independence 5. Past Neighbourhoods: Palestinians and Jerusalem's ‘enlarged Jewish Quarter’ 6. Where is Alexandria? Myths of the City and the Anti-city after Cosmopolitanism 7. Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Late-Ottoman City Centre Part III: Intimacies: Neighbourhoods as Sources and Objects of Claim-making 8. Violence, Temporality and Sociality in a Kashmiri Neighbourhood 9. Syrian Migration and Logics of Alterity in an Istanbul Neighbourhood 10. Negotiating Solidarity and Conflict within a Neighbourhood: Gülsuyu-Gülensu and the Scale of Politics 11. Urban Tectonics and Lifestyles in Motion: Affective and Spatial Negotiations of Belonging in Tophane, Istanbul 12. The Basij of Neighbourhood: Techniques of Government and Local Sociality in Bandar Abbas

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Hilal Alkan is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Her work focuses on charitable giving, migration, gender and social welfare, through the lenses of anthropology, citizenship studies and urban studies. Nazan Maksudyan is professor of history at the Freie Universität Berlin and a research associate at the Centre Marc Bloch. Her research focuses on the history of children and youth, with special interest in gender, sexuality, education, humanitarianism, and non-Muslims.

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