Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focussing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatus specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabitants define and exercise their legality in practice and daily routines. The ambition of the volume is to restore the continuum in the consolidation, building after building, of the popular neighborhoods of the cities under study, while demonstrating the closely-knit social relationships and other forms of community bonding.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The mukhalafat of Damascus, a case study.
Etienne Lena
Selling one’s property in an informal settlement: a case study in Damascus.
Baudouin Dupret & Myriam Ferrier
Property securement in informal neighbourhoods of Damascus via the payment of tax.
Myriam Ferrier
Inhabitants‘ daily practices and strategies to obtain legality of their home and mechanisms to secure their tenure (Egypt).
Marion Séjourné
Vertical versus Horizontal: Constraints of modern living conditions in informal settlements and the reality of construction.
Franziska Laue
Cooperation and pragmatism: shifting theories and practices about legal claims and urban rights recognition.
Agnès Deboulet
The Genesis of a Mosque: Negotiating Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut
Ward Vloeberghs
Public policies toward informal settlements in Jordan (1965-2007).
Myriam Ababsa
The commodification of the ashwa’iyyiat.Urban land, housing market unification and De Soto’s interventions in Egypt.
Eric Denis
Mülk Allahindir (‚This house is God’s property‘): Legitimizing land ownership in the suburbs of Istanbul.
Jean-François Pérouse
Laws and Rights in a Great Urban Project concerning Irregular Settlements in Beirut.
Valérie Clerc
The Coastal Settlements of Ouzaii and Jnah. Analysis for an upgrading project in Beirut.
Falk Jaehnigen
Social and juridical norms as observed in an Aleppo ‚marginal‘ neighborhood.
Zuhayr Ghazzal
Über den Autor
Myriam Ababsa is a research fellow in social geography at the French Institute for the Near East in Amman. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria.
Baudouin Dupret is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research, based in Paris, and a lecturer in Islamic law and socio-legal sciences at the University of Louvain. He has published extensively in the fields of the sociology and anthropology of law, legistlation, and media, especially in the Middle East.
Eric Dennis is a senior research fellow affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research, and is based at the French Institute in Pondicherry, India. He has published widely in the field of urban studies and geography of the Middle East.
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