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Rethinking Israeli Space

Periphery and Identity

By: Erez Tzfadia,Haim Yacobi

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Rethinking Israeli Space

Periphery and Identity

By: Erez Tzfadia,Haim Yacobi

This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning. Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how the state, the regime of citizenship, the capitalist logic, and the logic of ethnonationalism have all resulted in ethno-class division and stratification, which have been shaped by spatial policy. Rather than using the term periphery to describe an economic, geographical and social situation in which disadvantaged communities are located, this critical examination addresses the traditionally passive dimension of this term suggest that the reality of peripheral communities and spaces is rather more conflicted and controversial. The multidisciplinary approach taken by this book means it will be a valuable contribution to the fields of planning theory, political science and public policy, urban sociology, critical geography and Middle East studies.

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1136726047

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9781136726040

The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community

By: Haim Yacobi

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The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community

By: Haim Yacobi

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.

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160

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Routledge

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1134065841

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9781134065844

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

By: Haim Yacobi

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Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

By: Haim Yacobi

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments clash in planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' within their current daily life and future aspirations, the book explores how the very acts of planning and urban design are rooted in the existing structures of hegemonic power. With contributors from the fields of architecture, geography, planning, anthropology and sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, the book provides a rich, interdisciplinary view into the conflicts over memory and belonging which are spatially expressed and mediated through the official planning apparatus.

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241

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1317066669

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Israel and Africa

A Genealogy of Moral Geography

By: Haim Yacobi

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Israel and Africa

A Genealogy of Moral Geography

By: Haim Yacobi

Israel and Africa critically examines the ways in which Africa – as a geopolitical entity - is socially manufactured, collectively imagined but also culturally denied in Israeli politics. Its unique exploration of moral geography and its comprehensive, interdisciplinary research on the two countries offers new perspectives on Israeli history and society. Through a genealogical investigation of the relationships between Israel and Africa, this book sheds light on the processes of nationalism, development and modernization, exploring Africa’s role as an instrument in the constant re-shaping of Zionism. Through looking at "Israel in Africa" as well as "Africa in Israel", it provides insightful analysis on the demarcation of Israel's ethnic boundaries and identity formation as well as proposing the different practices, from architectural influences to the arms trade, that have formed the geopolitical concept of "Africa". It is through these practices that Israel reproduces its internal racial and ethnic boundaries and spaces, contributing to its geographical imagination as detached not solely from the Middle East but also from its African connections. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East and Jewish Studies, as well as Post-colonial Studies, Geography and Architectural History.

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156

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Routledge

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1317449967

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Twilight Nationalism

Politics of Existence at Life's End

By: Daniel Monterescu,Haim Hazan

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Twilight Nationalism

Politics of Existence at Life's End

By: Daniel Monterescu,Haim Hazan

The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish and Arab residents, however, reveal lives and nationalist sentiments far more complex. Twilight Nationalism shares the stories of ten of the city's elders—women and men, rich and poor, Muslims, Jews, and Christians—to radically deconstruct these national myths and challenge common understandings of belonging and alienation. Through the stories told at life's end, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan illuminate how national affiliation ultimately gives way to existential circumstances. Similarities in lives prove to be shaped far more by socioeconomic class, age, and gender than national allegiance, and intersections between stories usher in a politics of existence in place of politics of identity. In offering the real stories individuals tell about themselves, this book reveals shared perspectives too long silenced and new understandings of local community previously lost in nationalist narratives.

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331

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Stanford University Press

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1503605647

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9781503605640

Land Law and Policy in Israel

A Prism of Identity

By: Haim Sandberg

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Land Law and Policy in Israel

A Prism of Identity

By: Haim Sandberg

As one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in the world, the State of Israel faces serious land policy challenges and has a national identity laced with enormous internal contradictions. In Land Law and Policy in Israel,Haim Sandberg contends that if you really want to know the identity of a state, learn its land law and land policies. Sandberg argues that Israel's identity can best be understood by deciphering the code that lies in the Hebrew secret of Israeli dry land law. According to Sandberg, by examining the complex facets of property law and land policy, one finds a unique prism for comprehending Israel's most pronounced identity problems. Land Law and Policy in Israel explores how Israel's modern land system tries to bridge the gaps between past heritage and present needs, nationalization and privatization, bureaucracy and innovation, Jewish majority and non-Jewish minority, legislative creativity and judicial activism. The regulation of property and the determination of land usage have been the consequences of explicit choices made in the context of competing and evolving concepts of national identity. Land Law and Policy in Israel will prove to be a must-read not only for anyone interested in Israel but also for anyone who wants to understand the importance of land law in a nation's life.

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Indiana University Press

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025306046X

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9780253060464

The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a mixed community

By: Haim Yacobi

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Spatio-politics in a mixed community

By: Haim Yacobi

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1134065833

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Israel and Africa

A Genealogy of Moral Geography

By: Haim Yacobi

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A Genealogy of Moral Geography

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Rethinking Israeli Space

Periphery and Identity

By: Erez Tzfadia,Haim Yacobi

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Rethinking Israeli Space

Periphery and Identity

By: Erez Tzfadia,Haim Yacobi

This book examines the issue of Israeli space and in particular looks at cities, suburbs, development towns and Zionist agricultural landscape. Taking a multidisciplinary approach it contributes to the field of planning theory, political science, urban sociology, critical geography and Middle East studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136726055

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Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

By: Haim Yacobi

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Rethinking Israeli Space

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The Jewish-Arab City

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Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

Israel and Africa

Israel and Africa

Twilight Nationalism

Twilight Nationalism

Land Law and Policy in Israel

Land Law and Policy in Israel

The Jewish-Arab City

The Jewish-Arab City

Israel and Africa

Israel and Africa

Rethinking Israeli Space

Rethinking Israeli Space

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

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