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Author: Colin McFarlane
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0520382242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.
Author: Colin McFarlane
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0520382234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.
Author: Yair Wallach
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1503611140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people. A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism, the affinities of Arabic and Hebrew were forgotten and these sister-languages found themselves locked in a bitter war. Looking at the writing of—and literally on—Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
Author: Colin McFarlane
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0520382250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. In Fragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice. In this book, McFarlane explores infrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.
Author: Andrew Arsan
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1849047006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.
Author: Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780892552450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book World)-now with an Afterword about the postwar years. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An intensely personal yet timelessly crafted portrait of life in a worn-torn city, Beirut Fragments spans the years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. When thousands fled, Jean Said Makdisi chose to stay. She raised three sons, taught English and Humanities at Beirut University College-and she wrote. She records the breakdown of society and the physical destruction of Beirut, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli Invasion, everyday acts of terrorism, the struggle to maintain ordinary routines amid chaos, and the incredible spirit of a people. A Palestinian, a Christian, a woman who has lived in Jerusalem, Cairo, the United States, and Beirut, Jean Said Makdisi uses the migrations of her own life as a paradigm which helps elucidate many of the conflicts in the region. The new afterword covers the postwars years, from the last ceasefire to the present day.
Author: Tim Etchells
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415173827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1107028035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author: Preeti Chopra
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Toni Jordan
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2018-10-29
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 192577404X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of Addition and Nine Days, a superbly crafted and captivating literary mystery about a lost book and a secret love.
