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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “johannes becker”
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  • Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem

    Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements

    by Johannes Becker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
    Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world’s most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces.Moving beyond the dominant focus on Jerusalem’s political and religious significance, this book examines how individuals and communities navigate the complex ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Fragility of Global Migration

    Exploring a Constitutive Aspect of Migratory Forms

    Edited by Johannes Becker, Mathias Bös, Sevil Çakır ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book demonstrates the analytical power of the concept of fragility as a central and defining aspect of global migration processes. To this end, the book brings together authors from the Americas, South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, fostering a global dialogue on the social structuring of migration fragility in and between the Global North and the Global South.The various chapters of the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Biographies in the Global South

    Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses

    by Gabriele Rosenthal, Artur Bogner, Eva Bahl, Johannes Becker, Hendrik Hinrichsen, Josephine Schmiereck, Nicole Witte, Arne Worm ...
    Lange hat sich die soziologische Biografieforschung ganz überwiegend auf Menschen konzentriert, die im "globalen Norden" leben. Dieser Band ist ein Beitrag zu den jüngeren Bemühungen, diese viel zu enge Perspektive aufzuheben. Er zielt auf die Lebensgeschichten und Lebensverläufe von Menschen aus Afrika und dem Nahen Osten. Dabei stehen die biografischen und sozio-geschichtlichen Verflechtungen ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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    by Nurit Peled-Elhanan ...
    Each year, Israel's young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is by its nature intensely complex and is played out under the full glare of international security. So, how does Israel's education system prepare its young people for this? How is Palestine, and the Palestinians against whom ... Read more

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  • An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba

    Edited by Doctor Nahla Abdo, Nur Masalha ...
    In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and in galvanising the resistance to occupation.Unearthing an ... Read more

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  • On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements

    Selected Writings of Ella Shohat

    by Ella Shohat ...
    *Winner of the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2017*Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the pivotal figure of the Arab-Jew. This book gathers together her most influential political essays, interviews, speeches, testimonies and memoirs, as well ... Read more

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  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

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  • Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites

    Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution

    Edited by Elazar Barkan, Karen Barkey ...
    Series Book 22 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not ... Read more

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  • Colonial Jerusalem

    The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

    by Colonial Jerusalem Thomas Philip Abowd ...
    In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is oftensuggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice

    Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development

    by Paul Weller ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gülen’s teaching in the ... Read more

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  • The Islamic World

    Edited by Andrew Rippin ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Islamic World is an outstanding guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished international team of scholars, it elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions. Its grounding in contemporary scholarship makes it an ideal reference source for students and scholars alike.Edited by ... Read more

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