Orchards to cement: an ethnography of Jaffa's urban borderlands

Thesis

This thesis combines anthropological perspectives on materiality, the state, and urban planning to demonstrate how Israeli nationalism is constructed through diversity and the built environment. It illustrates how the urban borderlands of Jaffa – a mixed Jewish- Palestinian city in contemporary Israel – were transformed from were transformed from a landscape of citrus orchards populated by Palestinian bourgeois families and peasant farmers into the most densely populated neighbourhoods of ...

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Authors: Hart, JR

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Israel/Palestine; Borders and Boundaries; Urban Space; Anthropology of the State; Anthropology of the Built Environment; Urban Transformation; Urban Diversity; Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Materiality; Multiculturalism
• Subjects: Urban anthropology; Political geography; Anthropology; Sociology, Urban