Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities : Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Transformation of Urban Mix in Palestine/Israel in the Modern Era; 1: History, Representation and Collective Memory; 1: Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City; 2: ‘The Arabs Just Left': Othering and the Construction of Self amongst Jews in Haifa Before and After 1948 1; 3: “We Were Living in a Different Country”: Palestinian Nostalgia and the Future Past 1; 4: Cross-National Collective Action in Palestine's Mixed Towns: The 1946 Civil Servants Strike 1; 5: How is a Mixed Town to be Administered? Haifa's Municipal Council, 1940?1947; 2: Spatial Dynamics: Ethnic Urban Mix and its Contradictions; 6: Planning, Control and Spatial Protest: The Case of the Jewish-Arab Town of Lydd/Lod 1; 7: Heteronomy: The Cultural Logic of Urban Space and Sociality in Jaffa; 8: A Nixed, not Mixed, City: Mapping Obstacles to Democracy in the Nazareth/Natzerat Illit Conurbation; 9: Exit From the Scene: Reflections on the Public Space of the Palestinians in Israel; 3: Gendered Perspectives on Mixed Spaces; 10: Contested Contact: Proximity and Social Control In Pre-1948 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv; 11: Mixed Cities as a Place of Choice: The Palestinian Women's Perspective; 4: Cultural Encounters and Civil Society; 12: Cooperation and Conflict in the Zone of Civil Society: Arab-Jewish Activism in Jaffa; 13: Nationalism, Religion and Urban Politics in Israel: Struggles Over Modernity and Identity in ‘Global' Jaffa; 14: Mixed as in Pidgin: The Vanishing Arabic of a “Bilingual” City