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Introduction Part I: Borders: Material, Temporal and Conceptual Boundaries of Neighborhoods 1. What Makes a Township a Neighbourhood? The Case of Eldorado Park, Johannesburg 2. Killing Time in a Roma Neighborhood: Habitus and Precariousness in a Small Town in Western Turkey 3. Of Basti and Bazaar: Place Making and Women’s Lives in Nizamuddin, Delhi Part II: Stories: Neighbourhoods as Imagined and Narrated Entities 4. Two Tales of a Neighbourhood: Eyp as a Stage for the Ottoman Conquest and Turkish War of Independence 5. Past Neighbourhoods: Palestinians and Jerusalem’s `enlarged Jewish Quarter 6. Where is Alexandria? Myths of the City and the Anti-city after Cosmopolitanism 7. Jerusalem’s Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Late-Ottoman City Centre Part III: Intimacies: Neighbourhoods as Sources and Objects of Claim-making 8. Violence, Temporality and Sociality in a Kashmiri Neighbourhood 9. Syrian Migration and Logics of Alterity in an Istanbul Neighbourhood 10. Negotiating Solidarity and Conflict within a Neighbourhood: Glsuyu-Glensu and the Scale of Politics 11. Urban Tectonics and Lifestyles in Motion: Affective and Spatial Negotiations of Belonging in Tophane, Istanbul 12. The Basij of Neighbourhood: Techniques of Government and Local Sociality in Bandar Abbas
