Jerusalem by Anne B Shlay

Jerusalem by Anne B Shlay

Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem s other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict.

"Jerusalem is the main obstacle and battlefield in the Israeli-Palestinian conflictAs advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the 2000 Camp David Summit, I can testify that this was the main reason why the talks failed. This book by two excellent scholars is an excellent introduction for anyone who wants a deep understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what is happening politically on the ground in Jerusalem."
Moshe Amirav, The Hebrew University Jerusalem

"Jerusalem introduces the city as a battleground where the usual conflicts over land and housing cannot be separated from contested citizenship of residents and broad issues of class and ethnic inequality that appear most concretely at the local scale. Jerusalem is at the same time a neoliberal city, a divided city, and a postcolonial city, and Shlay and Rosen skillfully show how the theories associated with each of these depictions can be used to interpret its development."
John Logan, Brown University

Anne B. Shlay is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University, and past Chair of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

Gillad Rosen is Lecturer in Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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ISBN 13	9780745671048
ISBN 10	0745671047
Title	Jerusalem
Author	Anne B Shlay
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2015-05-29
Number of pages	172
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