Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Editor and contributor biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Comparative urbanism on a micro scale
	Neighbourhood formations
	Notes
	References
PART I: Borders: material, temporal and conceptual boundaries of neighbourhoods
	1. What makes a township a neighbourhood? The case of Eldorado Park, Johannesburg
		Introduction
		Neighbours without neighbourhoods
		Surveillance
		Compression
		Abandonment
		Conclusion
		References
	2. Killing time in a Roma neighbourhood: habitus and precariousness in a small town in Western Turkey
		A place on the side of the road
		Killing the present time
		The invasion of timeless times
		Millennial aspirations and casino capitalism
		Conclusion
		Coda
		References
	3. Of Basti and bazaar: place-making and women’s lives in Nizamuddin, Delhi
		Introduction: the changing South Asian cityscape
		Weekly bazaars in Delhi: survival of a past or places in making
		Why neighbourhood matters
		‘Everyone knows Nizamuddin’
		What’s so special about the Monday bazaar?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
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
		Introduction
		Sites of memory in Istanbul’s cityscape
		Socio-historical context
		Eyüp as the stage of Istanbul’s Ottoman conquest
		Eyüp as the stage of the Turkish War of Independence
		Monuments as living history and documentation of a bygone past
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	5. Past neighbourhoods: Palestinians and Jerusalem’s ‘enlarged Jewish Quarter’
		Introduction
		Places and biographies
		Former Palestinian neighbourhoods and today’s enlarged Jewish Quarter
		Temporal marginalisation: lacking memories
		Spatial marginalisation: lacking neighbourhood life
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	6. Where is Alexandria? Myths of the city and the anti-city after cosmopolitanism
		The Chinese Housing
		Cyprus
		Ghurbal
		The East of the City
		Notes
		References
	7. Jerusalem’s lost heart: the rise and fall of the late Ottoman city centre
		The late Ottoman city centre
		Ottomanism, its possibilities and contestations
		British undoing of the Jaffa Gate centre
		The final destruction: Israeli occupation in 1967
		Notes
		References
PART III: Intimacies: neighbourhoods as sources and objects of claim-making
	8. Violence, temporality, and sociality: the case of a Kashmiri neighbourhood
		Introduction
		Locating Nowhatta in the history of resistance in Kashmir
		Neighbourhood – a space of dissent
		Solidarities and new spaces of sociality
		Neighbourhood – the fractures within
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9. Syrian migration and logics of alterity in an Istanbul neighbourhood
		Syrian migrants in Turkey
		Syrian migrants and the changing Istanbul neighbourhoods
		Aiding neighbours
		Competing neighbours
		Hostile neighbours
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10. Negotiating solidarity and conflict in and beyond the neighbourhood: the case of Gülsuyu-Gülensu, Istanbul
		Introduction
		Gülsuyu-Gülensu as a site of coexistence
		Gülsuyu-Gülensu as a site of discrepancies
		Gülsuyu-Gülensu as an arena for violent confrontations
		From ‘drug wars’ to the Syrian war
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
	11. Urban tectonics and lifestyles in motion: affective and spatial negotiations of belonging in Tophane, Istanbul
		Drawing boundaries of inclusion and exclusion: the mahalleli as urban kin
		Urban tectonics in motion
		Changing landscapes of lifestyle and consumption
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	12. The Basij of neighbourhood: techniques of government and local sociality in Bandar Abbas
		Soft security: crafting the subject of prevention
		Measuring faith: creating the space of negotiation
		Communities of complicity: creating the space of contention
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index