This seminar will focus on the study of local urban history under different regimes. We will explore Palestinian cities and towns through mid-nineteenth century until mid-twentieth century. Here the coastal cities like Jaffa and Haifa will stand against the mountain ones, Jerusalem and Nablus. We will explore urban transformation through local indigenous agents and by imperial and central ones. We will deal with inquiries such as: What effects did those two poles have on the ground? What is the effect of modern planning on such sites? How do different regimes cope with the past and its remains?
The course will build on different modules such as:
Such a seminar will introduce various towns and cities through the periods, discuss methods for studying local history and study the history of the country through the late Ottoman Empire, British Mandate and early State of Israel.
Suggested reading:
Abu El-Haj, Nadia, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israel Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago press, 2001.
Bauman, Joel, "Tourism, the Ideology of Design, and the Nationalized Past in Zippori/Sepphoris, an Israeli National Park," in Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram (eds.), Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Oxford: Altamira press, 2004.
Stoler, Ann Laura,"' The Rot Remains': from Ruins to Ruination," in Ann Luara Stoler (ed.), Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.
Prüfungsform im MA, BA und mod. LA: ES
- Trainer/in: Tawfiq Da'adli
- Trainer/in: Julia Schneidawind