Dumper, Michael, author.

Jerusalem unbound : geography, history, and the future of the holy city / Michael Dumper.

New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.

xiv, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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.

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Israeli West Bank Barrier.
Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Peace.
Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Territorial questions.
Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes.
Mur entre Israël et la Cisjordanie.
Conflit israélo-arabe 1993- Paix.
Conflit israélo-arabe 1993- Questions territoriales.
Négociations diplomatiques dans les conflits internationaux.
Arab-Israeli conflict Peace
Boundaries
Ethnic relations
International law
Geografie
Nahostkonflikt
Israel.
Palestine.
Jerusalem.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
International status.
Occupied Arab territories.
Sacred sites.
Wall.
Geography.
History.
Palestinafrågan.
Gränser.
Etniska relationer.
Jerusalem History.
Jerusalem International status.
Jerusalem Boundaries.
Jerusalem Ethnic relations.
Jérusalem Histoire.
Middle East Jerusalem
Jerusalem (Israel) History
Jerusalem (Israel) International status
Jerusalem (Israel) Boundaries
Jerusalem (Israel) Ethnic relations
Jerusalem historia.

History

Location: Library main 289449
Call No.: BIB 231935
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