A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 33090
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- ISBN
- 9781503611139
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- A City in Fragments is an innovatory and rich analysis of Arabic and Hebrew “urban texts” in modern Jerusalem. Each of the eight chapters focuses on a distinct form of public writing, e.g. inscriptions, graffiti, banners, shop and street signs. The book is based on a mammoth survey of sources, in Arabic, Hebrew, French and English, including inscription corpuses, photographic archives, paintings, memoirs, diaries, letters, historical press, and extensive fieldwork in Jerusalem. Profoundly interdisciplinary, the book engages with social history, sociolinguistics, geography, urban studies, epigraphy, and philosophy, to produce, in the words of one reviewer, "compelling and sophisticated story".
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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