Religious Gentrification as Heterarchies of Urban Planning: Reflections on the Religious Neighborhood in Acre

This article explores the ways in which religion(s) and religious groups are increasingly contributing to changes in the politics of planning of cities and challenge the hierarchical modern planning order. Following the notion of heterarchy as suggesting a diversity of relationships among elements i...

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Published in:Numen
Main Author: Luz, Nimrod 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Numen
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Akko / City planning / Religion / Heterarchie / Gentrification / Habitus
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Urban planning
B heterarchy
B Acre
B religious gentrification
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Summary:This article explores the ways in which religion(s) and religious groups are increasingly contributing to changes in the politics of planning of cities and challenge the hierarchical modern planning order. Following the notion of heterarchy as suggesting a diversity of relationships among elements in a system, the argument is made that the religious-cum-ethnic component is becoming part of an urban habitus that influences and redefines modern urban planning. Taking the case of a recently developed gentrified religious Jewish neighborhood in Acre, a multi-ethnic and multi-religious town in northern Israel, the article follows the ways in which urban planning is being shaped by three interrelated processes: the production of space driven by forms of capitalism intertwined with local heterarchical projects of space and power; a set of social struggles over urban space; and the framing of religious and ethnic urban identity.
ISSN:1568-5276
Contains:Enthalten in: Numen
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341653