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Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf
In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after the discovery of oil. By using a variety of local sources and oral histories, Fuccaro questions the role played by the British Empire and oil in state-making. Instead, she draws attention to urban residents, elites and institutions as active participants in state and nation building. She also examines how the city has continued to provide a source of political, social and sectarian identity since the early nineteenth century, challenging the view that the advent of oil and modernity represented a radical break in the urban past of the region.
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Port towns and urban cultures : international histories of the waterfront, c.1700-2000
This book offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this collection explore two key themes: the nature and character of \"sailortown\" culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities.
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Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today’s Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and “global” economies during the eight centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts, botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the classical Mediterranean world and Asia.
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The evolution of port-city relations in the era of technological development: case study of Bandar-Abbas County, Iran
The port-city interface, as a spatial-functional concept, and its relations have been reproduced many times in developed and developing countries. However, there are few studies on such relations in West Asia while urbanization and shipping in this region are considered ancient concepts. The present study investigates the port-city relations in Bandar-Abbas County after the establishment and exploitation of Shahid Rajaee container port to bridge the gap in the study of port-city relations in West Asia, with distinct national–international political contexts. Also, it aims to methodologically analyze the interface as a multi-layered space where the city and the port geographically meet, and different urban, port, and related industrial uses cooperate, conflict, and give character to the port-city. In other words, the present study seeks to understand how the development of containerization of the port and the subsequent required spatial changes in recent decades have influenced the formation of port-city relations in Bandar-Abbas County. To this end, the social, spatial-functional, economic, and governance components are investigated and analyzed, using the qualitative approach of constructivist grounded theory. The extracted category clusters indicate that the city and the port have experienced four temporal-spatial stages in their relations during this period. Although in Bandar-Abbas County, no large-scale displacement of uses is observed, introducing new port and industrial uses to the outskirts of the city under factors such as macro-policies and the economy, has created a lot of competition, in addition to increasing spatial-functional conflict in the port-city interface. In general, despite a great social cohesion in port-city relations, these relations have developed separately in spatial, functional, economic, and governance areas.
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Port-city symbiosis and uneven development: a critical essay on forestry exports and maritime trade from Coronel, Chile
This article explores the concept of port-city territory symbiosis in combination with social and environmental impacts of logistics, port handling, and the global value chains (GVC) of forestry products. Based on fieldwork and a mixed method approach, our analyses of the port-city of Coronel, its forestry hinterland, the port company PuertoCoronel, and the pulp mill MAPA, illustrate a more general pattern of uneven economic, social and spatial development. While forestry and port companies improve and modernize their processes and facilities, the city of Coronel and its territories seem to be left behind. As this case study shows, symbiosis makes an exciting contribution to the study of port-city-territories, if one expands the latter to include its connections to other territories upstream of the GVC, and conceives them as an integral part of the global economy. Additionally, our analysis challenges the concept of symbiosis by providing a critical twist to include phenomena such as environmental injustices and asymmetric relations between companies and local communities and their territories.
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