Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory

_Outcomes of "Bi-po)aritv": a) Very clear and conflicted social relations phrased as opposites white -- black (poor) -- (rich) 1st world -- 3rd world colonial -- native city -- country b) Spatial patterns distinct and spatially apart through political practices No-man's land, boundaries, green line, buffer zone c) Space as active agent mediating issues of sovereignty, security, customs, etc. d) New spatiaVsocial items the township in S.A. the border zone in USlMexico the :bungalow or maidan in India the green line in Beirut the rural town in Cuba e) Issues of language 1) verbal terminlogy for sociaVspatial patterns camp, township 2) visual language language of colonial·dominance (as univeISal) language ofadaptation & appropriation language of the vernacular language of modem ism (as univeISal) o Dynamics of change + pattern of conflict Johannesburg, how gets to be bi-polar (sublimated conflict) MexicalU.S., how border gets determined (war) Delhi, how colonial power is established (war + revolution) + revolution to post-colony Havana, from revolution to new state Temporary national borders Nicosia -- from unified to divided to? Temporary national borders Jerusalem -- from unified to divided to unified to? Micro borders 1 Beirut -- from unified to internal sub-borders to? ~ i1?1-1'~j ~ ~r ~ - ~ (\.f/o ~"\ / 2A 'I J I . . . 10,' ~ , "GJ , , "-. , / DelhVNew Delhi Havana/Cuba EI PasofJuarez ( 2 ll.rzlll1l Ulf rulf; A third rdigio.., islam, adopts ] mtIalelll (f.J a holy city Chronology (with special reference to the ",ain sieges, captures, sacks, and destructions suffered by Jerusalem) Under persian rtlle, Jt1vish 1ecta";a1JUm c. 1900 BC Jerusalem referred to in Egyptian execration t(xts; AbrahaJll greeted at Salem in the name of the "most high God" c. 1000 95 2 93 0 ~ Destruction by Ptolemy Sote[ Destruction by Antiochus Epiphanss; practice of Judaism forbidden 165 Iemple restoted by Maccabees . 168 63 Siege, capture, and much destruction by Under direct 0" Pompsy i..direct Roman 40 Capture by th..s.!arthians ",Ie, JetVish Jmm.lem reaches 37 Sicge and partial destnlCtion by Herod tl,. height of its 20 BC-AD 63 Herod rebuilds second temple Jplmdor; the c. AD 26-30 Ministry and crucifixion of lcsw revoltJ and 66 Jewish revolt dut",criom of the city in"augu­ 70 Devastation by Titus rate the JetVish 132 Capture and devastation by Hadrian; new ciry dispersio..; renamed Adia Capitolina; Jews banned Jcruralem becomeJ "Capital ofMmwry" 1010 f: 1099 JemJa/em thriveJ 1187 1219 The city declineJ ,,"de,. Turkish rt.le '5i6 1537-1541 1808 ~ Zionists inaug"rnte ]ewish (CRei"nJ"; tI"der British rule, Jerusnlem thri,'eJ b"t is ]i·tlJI.mtly -racked by riots and other distlll'balletS Ill ...I '• 0- ~ ! Ji() .r. 'd" I- Ilrt ~ 1Il..( .ii: -<. '--' c ill Siege, capture, and massacre of Moslems and Jews 6)' Cmsaders Recapture by Moslems under Saladin Walls razed by Malik a1-Muazzam Isa Ca~ture and s~ck by Mongols '" VI ~~~\ C ~:l~~ ~ ,.._ Onoman e(lOguest Walls rebuilt WIder Suiciman the MaJ;niticellt Fire in the Holy Sepulchre 1831 Egyptian occupation 1840 Reoccupation by Turks ...I -Z -:i'\ .... '" :;! ~ ~ ~ I- ~ e~ e British con!jucst 1917 21 19 1929 193 6 } 1948 Arab riots and lIprising~ III War and siege of Jewish Jerusalem by Jordanians '< 1 ~2 7 '" !{. " 1948-1967 I Jerusalem -=====~==~ T. 01 ::z : <'I ) immtrlSegrowth of thtcity 'mder Mnyor T,ddy ., KoUek, but political problmlS rtmain ,f,iresol"ed; W nil ofRtligiOf, conti",.e ;n ]tI'IIsalem "nder allother IIa"" a :;j ' • ri. N