Palestinian City and Civic Culture: Civic Siege and Absence of City

dc.contributor.authorBilal A. A. Salameh
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T09:36:01Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T09:36:01Z
dc.date.issued2010-07-12
dc.description.abstract<p>This article is tackling an important issues in the Palestinian context, regarding to the<br /> significance of the city as incubator of civic culture and its style of life. For achieving the<br /> object of this paper, the researcher rely on historical, sociological, and political<br /> experiences that the Palestinian Society has been undergoing over a period of 62 years,<br /> focusing on spatial demolition policies that adopted by Israeli Occupation, starting with<br /> the Judization of the Palestinian cities such as Jerusalem and Hebron, which aiming for<br /> emptying them of its Palestinian residents. This colonialist politics was expressed by<br /> policies of : siege, curfew all year long, confiscation of some Palestinian houses, schools,<br /> and lands, closure of the central market adjacent to the Abraham Mosque, state of<br /> isolating of the cities, deprivation of Palestinians of their minimum civil, political,<br /> cultural and national rights. At the same time coincide with obstruction the Palestinian<br /> from having any development and expansion of central cities. And so prevented<br /> Palestinians from undergoing a state of cultural and social integration. the result of this<br /> policies is creating state of localism loyalties, conservative and traditional trends within<br /> Palestinian cities that contradicted with civic model. The extremely model of this polices<br /> applied on Hebron city that is experiencing state of conflict on identity of the city<br /> between the Israelis and Palestinian.</p>en
dc.description.abstract<p>This article is tackling an important issues in the Palestinian context, regarding to the<br /> significance of the city as incubator of civic culture and its style of life. For achieving the<br /> object of this paper, the researcher rely on historical, sociological, and political<br /> experiences that the Palestinian Society has been undergoing over a period of 62 years,<br /> focusing on spatial demolition policies that adopted by Israeli Occupation, starting with<br /> the Judization of the Palestinian cities such as Jerusalem and Hebron, which aiming for<br /> emptying them of its Palestinian residents. This colonialist politics was expressed by<br /> policies of : siege, curfew all year long, confiscation of some Palestinian houses, schools,<br /> and lands, closure of the central market adjacent to the Abraham Mosque, state of<br /> isolating of the cities, deprivation of Palestinians of their minimum civil, political,<br /> cultural and national rights. At the same time coincide with obstruction the Palestinian<br /> from having any development and expansion of central cities. And so prevented<br /> Palestinians from undergoing a state of cultural and social integration. the result of this<br /> policies is creating state of localism loyalties, conservative and traditional trends within<br /> Palestinian cities that contradicted with civic model. The extremely model of this polices<br /> applied on Hebron city that is experiencing state of conflict on identity of the city<br /> between the Israelis and Palestinian.</p>ar
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11888/9313
dc.titlePalestinian City and Civic Culture: Civic Siege and Absence of Cityen
dc.titlePalestinian City and Civic Culture: Civic Siege and Absence of Cityar
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