イェルサレム旧市街の日常生活 Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem : Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society)

Becker, Johannes

Routledge（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 218 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032887883
• DDC分類 307.7609569442

Full Description

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 realities of emplacement within the Old City's dense and shifting environment. Through a unique combination of biographical narratives and spatial sociology, the chapters investigate how personal life stories intersect with urban space, family ties, political occupation, religious identity, and social hierarchies. From small neighbourhood dynamics and the challenges faced by Palestinians in the enlarged Jewish Quarter, to the involuntary emplacement of international monks, the book uncovers the diverse ways inhabitants experience belonging, exclusion, and adaptation in Jerusalem's Old City. It also traces the city's evolving socio-political landscape since 1948, offering a rich, historically informed account of daily life under occupation and intercommunal tension.

A significant contribution to urban studies, Middle East studies, and the sociology of space, this book is essential reading for scholars of Jerusalem, conflict studies, and the lived experiences of divided cities.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Jerusalem's Old City: The Burden of Biography and Ülace

Historical transformations in the Old City

Biography and emplacement

Old City research spaces

Emplacements in Jerusalem's Old City

Emplacements in biographical trajectories: Constriction, expansion, constancy

Structure of the book

Bibliography

2. Emplacement: Understanding the Link between Biography and Place

Introduction to sociological biographical research

Places: Processual, historical and co-constituted by actors

The perception of places

Emplacement as a biographical perspective

The research process: Research spaces and emplacements

Bibliography

3. A Brief History of East Jerusalem since 1948

Jordanian rule, 1948-1967

The Israeli occupation from 1967

The First Intifada

Increasing control of the Palestinians in Jerusalem

East Jerusalem's current situation

Bibliography

4. Jerusalem's Old City: Historical Discussions, Recent History and Current Situation

Jerusalem and the debate about Islamic cities

Different interpretations in historical publications of living together in Jerusalem

How the Old City became a place of outsiders

The Old City of Jerusalem in the Present: Research and Data

Bibliography

5. Community as Challenge and Chance: Emplacements in a Small Neighbourhood

Everyday life and negotiations in the small neighbourhood

Hafez Fuqaha: "Jerusalem doesn't leave its people"

Muhammad Najjar: Withdrawn from the neighbourhood

Sana Haddad: Seeking neighbourhood community

Bibliography

6. The Toll of Spatial and Biographical Isolation: Palestinian Emplacement in the "Enlarged Jewish Quarter"

Historical outline

Collective memories about past neighbourhoods

Talking to Palestinians in the enlarged Jewish Quarter

Huda Saifi: "I look like Jerusalem with its sadness, brokenness and its defeats"

Amal Abu Sneineh and her son Lutfi: "Millions will die here"

Subhi Amro: "I can't leave the Old City"

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7. Involuntary Emplacement in the Holy City: International Monks in the Old City of Jerusalem

Interviewing monks

Brother Michel: "All my plans were not the plans God had for me"

Brother Macarius: "I'd like to go to another place"

Brother Jean: "I know how to live in such an environment"

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8. Conclusion

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NOTES

All photographs are by the author unless otherwise noted.