Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities

Dr Daniel Monterescu, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest. Dan Rabinowitz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University.

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