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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daniel monterescu”
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  • Jewish Revival Inside Out

    Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age

    Edited by Daniel Monterescu, Rachel Werczberger ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    Unravels the cultural tension inherent in projects of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future.Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal" projects ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ‘Going Native?'

    Settler Colonialism and Food

    Edited by Ronald Ranta, Alejandro Colás, Daniel Monterescu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a comparative survey of diverse settler colonial experiences in relation to food, food culture and foodways - how the latter are constructed, maintained, revolutionised and, in some cases, dissolved. What do settler colonial foodways and food cultures look like? Are they based on an imagined colonial heritage, do they embrace indigenous repertoires or invent new hybridised ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Twilight Nationalism

    Politics of Existence at Life's End

    by Daniel Monterescu, Haim Hazan ...
    The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish and Arab residents, however, reveal lives and nationalist sentiments far more complex. Twilight ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities

    Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

    by Daniel Monterescu ...
    Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed socio-spatial configurations. In many ways, their enduring success and vitality lie in the richness of their ethnic texture and ongoing exchange of economic goods, cultural practices, political ideas and social movements. This mixture, however, is rarely harmonious and has often led to violent conflict over land and identity. Focusing on mixed towns in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Jaffa Shared and Shattered

    Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

    by Daniel Monterescu ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel Monterescu argues that such places challenge our assumptions about cities and nationalism, calling into ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Palestinian Village Histories

    Geographies of the Displaced

    by Rochelle Davis ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Remembering Palestine in 1948

    Beyond National Narratives

    by Efrat Ben-Ze'ev ...
    Series Book 32 - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens when narratives of war arise out of personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still unfolding. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories of those who participated and were affected by the events of 1948, and how these events have been ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Iranophobia

    The Logic of an Israeli Obsession

    by Haggai Ram ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from all-too-common geopolitical analyses to show that this conflict is as much a product of shared cultural ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • One Hundred Myths about the Middle East

    by Fred Halliday ...
    Much has been written in recent years about the Middle East. At the same time, no other region has been as misunderstood, nor framed in so many clichés and mistakenly-held beliefs. In this much-needed exposé Fred Halliday selects one hundred of the most commonly misconstrued 'facts' – in the political, cultural, social and historical spheres – and illuminates each case without compromising its ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey

    The Other Side of Tolerance

    by Marcy Brink-Danan ...
    Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "Ottoman mosaic." In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the "good minority," Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel

    The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation

    by Riad M. Nasser ...
    Series series Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
    The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes meaningful. In other words, identity develops via difference from Others against whom our sense of self becomes meaningful. This thesis emerges out of the synthesis the study develops from ... Read more

    $62.99 USD