Doctoral Dissertation Research: Urban Space, Place and the State in Palestinian-Israeli Mixed Towns, 1948-2000

0090197 Comaroff/Monterecue来自芝加哥大学的一名人类学学生的这篇论文研究了生活在混合城镇的巴勒斯坦人和犹太以色列人如何理解和表达他们的身份。 阿拉伯裔以色列人生活在一个民主国家，排除了他们获得完全公民身份的可能性，但与此同时，他们在整个阿拉伯世界的领土、人口和政治上都处于边缘地位。巴勒斯坦以色列人夹在以色列国和巴勒斯坦国之间，这两个国家都没有能力提供充分的承诺和成员资格。 作为一个集体，这一群体过着一种矛盾的生活：它越是保持其传统地位的完整性，越是坚持主权自决的权利，它就越是发现自己与国家和公民身份脱节和被排除在外。 该项目将在雅法、海法、阿克里和拉姆拉等国家和种族混杂的城市背景下研究这一矛盾现象。 雅法的民族志研究将研究加速中产阶级化的影响，包括富裕的犹太人和贫穷的混合社区，以及阿拉伯居民迁入正式犹太社区的变化过程。 在雅法使用参与观察学生将研究穆斯林和基督教巴勒斯坦人以及犹太居民的三个亚组：旧的下层阶级移民，新的富裕绅士和年轻学生。利用档案研究，学生将记录雅法和海法，阿克里和拉姆拉作为混合城镇的比较历史。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对世界这一重要地区群体间紧张关系的来源和性质的理解，并为年轻的社会科学家提供培训。

0090197Comaroff / MonterescuThis dissertation research by an anthropology student from the University of Chicago studies how Palestinian and Jewish Israelis living in mixed towns understand and express their identity. Arab Israelis live in a democratic state that excludes the possibility of their full citizenship, yet at the same time they are territorially, demographically and politically peripheral in the Arab world at large. Palestinian Israelis are caught between the Israeli state and the Palestinian nation, neither of which is capable of providing full commitment and membership. As a collective this group lives a paradoxical existence: the more it remains intact in its traditional place and asserts a right to sovereign determination, the more it finds itself disconnected and excluded from nationhood and citizenship. The project will study this paradox in the nationally and ethnically mixed urban contexts of Jaffa, Haifa, Acre and Ramla. Ethnographic research in Jaffa will study the effects of accelerated gentrification involving affluent Jews and poor mixed neighborhoods as well as the process of change involving Arab inhabitants moving into formally Jewish neighborhoods. Using participant observation in Jaffa the student will study Muslim and Christian Palestinians as well as three sub-groups of Jewish inhabitants: old lower-class immigrants, new wealthy gentrifiers, and young students. Using archival research the student will document the comparative history of Jaffa and Haifa, Acre and Ramla as mixed towns. This research is important as it will advance our understanding of the sources and nature of the intergroup tensions in this important area of the world, as well as providing training for a young social scientist.