1st Edition
Urban Neighbourhood Formations Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies
Introduction
Hilal Alkan and Nazan Maksudyan
Part I: Borders: Material, Temporal and Conceptual Boundaries of Neighborhoods
1. What Makes a Township a Neighbourhood? The Case of Eldorado Park, Johannesburg
Alex Wafer and Kholofelo Rameetse
2. Killing Time in a Roma Neighborhood: Habitus and Precariousness in a Small Town in Western Turkey
Sezai Ozan Zeybek
3. Of Basti and Bazaar: Place Making and Women's Lives in Nizamuddin, Delhi
Samprati Pani
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
Annegret Roelcke
5. Past Neighbourhoods: Palestinians and Jerusalem's ‘enlarged Jewish Quarter’
Johannes Becker
6. Where is Alexandria? Myths of the City and the Anti-city after Cosmopolitanism
Samuli Schielke
7. Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Late-Ottoman City Centre
Yair Wallach
Part III: Intimacies: Neighbourhoods as Sources and Objects of Claim-making
8. Violence, Temporality and Sociality in a Kashmiri Neighbourhood
Aatina Nasir Malik
9. Syrian Migration and Logics of Alterity in an Istanbul Neighbourhood
Hilal Alkan
10. Negotiating Solidarity and Conflict within a Neighbourhood: Gülsuyu-Gülensu and the Scale of Politics
Derya Özkaya
11. Urban Tectonics and Lifestyles in Motion: Affective and Spatial Negotiations of Belonging in Tophane, Istanbul
Urszula Ewa Wozniak
12. The Basij of Neighbourhood: Techniques of Government and Local Sociality in Bandar Abbas
Ahmad Moradi
Biography
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.
