Jerusalem Unbound by Michael Dumper torrent

Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City

by Michael Dumper



Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in

the city nor the underlying factors that make an agreement between Israel and

the Palestinians so difficult. The lines delineating Israeli authority are

frequently different from those delineating segregated housing or areas of

uneven service provision or parallel national electoral districts of competing

educational jurisdictions. In particular, the city's large number of holy

sites and restricted religious compounds create enclaves that continually

threaten to undermine the Israeli state's authority and control over the city.

This lack of congruity between political control and the actual spatial

organization and everyday use of the city leaves many areas of occupied East

Jerusalem in a kind of twilight zone where citizenship, property rights, and

the enforcement of the rule of law are ambiguously applied.



Michael Dumper plots a history of Jerusalem that examines this intersecting

and multileveled matrix and, in so doing, is able to portray the constraints

on Israeli control over the city and the resilience of Palestinian enclaves

after forty-five years of Israeli occupation. Adding to this complex mix is

the role of numerous external influences--religious, political, financial, and

cultural--so that the city is also a crucible for broader contestation. While

the Palestinians may not return to their previous preeminence in the city,

neither will Israel be able to assert a total and irreversible dominance. His

conclusion is that the city will not only have to be shared but that the

sharing will be based upon these many borders and the interplay between

history, geography, and religion.



ISBN-13 : 9780231161961

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Publication date : 06/17/2014

Pages : 360


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