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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456950903321

Autore

Tzfadia Erez

Titolo

Rethinking Israeli space : periphery and identity / / Erez Tzfadia and Haim Yacobi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-24168-4

9786613241689

1-136-72605-5

0-203-81699-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; ; 20

Altri autori (Persone)

YacobiHaim

Disciplina

956.9405

Soggetti

City planning - Israel

Space (Architecture) - Social aspects - Israel

Land use, Rural - Israel - Planning

Electronic books.

Israel Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-140) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rethinking Israeli Space Periphery and identity; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Nationalism, identity and the production of a periphery; 2 Periphery, architecture and diasporic sense of place; 3 Frontier in the core: Russian migrants in a Jewish-Arab 'mixed city'; 4 Labour migration and the urban geographies of the periphery; 5 The production of global/peripheral landscape; 6 Revisiting multiculturalism in the city; 7 Recognition, land allocation and the periphery; Conclusions: in-between periphery and frontier; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 shape