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"Multiethnic cities--where the political "other" is also a neighbor--play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. Daniel Monterescu argues that such places challenge our assumptions about national identity and challenge the Israeli state's goal of maintaining homogeneous, segregated, and ethnically stable spaces. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, he analyzes everyday interactions, life histories, and uses of space, describing the politics of gentrification and the circumstantial coalitions that define the city. Drawing on key theorists in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, and political science he outlines a relational theory of sociality and spatiality"--

The emergence of gated communities in Israel/Palestine signals new modes of urban exclusion, which reshape previous forms of spatial distinction. Focusing on the ethnically "mixed town" of Jaffa, where an unprecedented number of such gated communities have been constructed in the past decade, this article interrogates the modus operandi of the Andromeda Hill project and Palestinian resistance to it. Conceptualized as a neoliberal mode of ethnogentrification, this gated community attempts to achieve the impossible task of positioning itself both within and without local lived space and inhabited time. Operating as a neo-orientalist simulacrum, such projects subvert, spatially and semiotically, the standard logic of urban representation and modernistic notions of segregation. The concept of spatial heteronomy is proposed to address such dialectic strategies of spatial orientationality—circumventing the contested local urban space and projected onto a mythological plane of Mediterranean fantasy.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward Twilight Nationalism -- PART I: SUNSET -- 1. Besieged Nationalism: Fakhri Jday and the Decline of the Elites -- 2. Worn-Out Nationalism: Rabbi Avraham Bachar and the Community's Betrayal -- 3. Surviving Nationalism: Isma'il abu-Shehade and Testimony -- PART II: DUSK -- 4. Circumventing Nationalism: The Hakim Sisters and the Cosmopolitan Experience -- 5. Domesticated Nationalism: Nazihah Asis, a Prisoner of Zion -- 6. Dissolved Nationalism: Subhiya abu-Ramadan and the Critique of the Patriarchal Order -- 7. Overlooking Nationalism: Talia Seckbach-Monterescu In and Out of Place -- PART III: NIGHTFALL -- 8. Suspended Nationalism: Moshe (Mussa) Hermosa and Jewish-Arab Masculinity -- 9. Masking Nationalism: Amram Ben-Yosef on a Tightrope -- 10. Speechless Nationalism: Abu-George on the Edge -- Conclusion: From Identity Politics to Politics of Existence -- Epilogue: Earth to Earth: Posthumous Nationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

AbstractEtymologically related, the concepts ofterroirandterritorialitydisplay divergent cultural histories. While one designates the palatable characteristics of place as a branded story of geographic distinction, the other imbues the soil with political meaning. This paper traces the production of eno-locality in a contested space on both sides of the Green Line in Israel/Palestine. The case of the Yatir award-winning winery shows how terroir and territory are blended in the political economy and cultural politics of colonial place-making. Located on a multiscalar frontier—climatic, geopolitical, and viticultural—Yatir Winery positions itself simultaneously within the Mediterranean transnational landscape and in a biblical site of historical authenticity. Enacting strategic regimes of signification to target the increasing demand for high-end wines on both the global and local markets, it makes a claim for place, while appropriating Palestinian land and redefining ancient Jewish heritage. The result articulates a settler colonial landscape whose symbolic and material transformations are reflected in the Israeli search for rooted identity. Analytically, we explore the power of border and frontier wines to reconfigure the differences between New World and Old World paradigms. We conclude by outlining a comparative framework of the charged relations between terroir and territory that articulates the nexus between border typologies and the colonial politics of wine.

Considérées comme les « arrière-cours » du paysage urbain israélien, les villes pluriethniques ont surtout été étudiées à la lumière du paradigme de la marginalité. Or ce paradigme omet de reconnaître la dimension sociale de ces espaces, qui sont des mondes vécus à part entière. L'article aborde la problématique de la marginalité et du pluralisme dans une ville judéo-arabe en s'appuyant sur des données d'archive et de terrain. Il ne fait pas de cette ville un espace unidimensionnel d'hyperségrégation mais un lieu de marginalité créative, qui conteste paradoxalement l'hégémonie des nationalistes, qu'ils soient palestiniens ou sionistes. En examinant de quelle façon l'altérité se manifeste au quotidien, les auteurs montrent que c'est précisément la marginalité et l'exclusion qui donne toute sa vitalité à Jaffa, l'une des périphéries urbaines les plus créatives d'Israël.