Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine
- O. Yiftachel
- Sociology
- 2006
Preface PART I. SETTINGS 1. Introduction 2. The Ethnocratic Regime: The Politics of Seizing Contested Territory PART II. ETHNOCRACY AND TERRITORY IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE 3. Zionist and Palestinian…
Critical theory and ‘gray space’: Mobilization of the colonized
- O. Yiftachel
- Sociology
- 1 June 2009
The paper draws on critical urban theories (CUT) to trace the working of oppressive power and the emergence of new subjectivities through the production of space. Within such settings, it analyzes…
Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid?
- O. Yiftachel
- History
- 1 February 2009
The author analyzes the political geography of globally expanding urban informalities. These are conceptualized as `gray spaces', positioned between the `whiteness' of legality/approval/safety, and…
Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
- A. Roy, N. Alsayyad, R. Bromley
- Economics
- 2003
Chapter 1 Urban Informality: Crossing Borders Chapter 2 Urban Informality as a "New" Way of Life Part 3 Liberalization, Globalization, and Urban Informality Chapter 4 Love in the Time of Enhanced…
Planning and Social Control: Exploring the Dark Side
- O. Yiftachel
- Sociology
- 1 May 1998
Theories of urban and regional planning have been deficient, neglecting to account sufficientlyfor its use as a tool of social control and oppression. The article argues that planning's…
New Paradigm or Old Myopia? Unsettling the Communicative Turn in Planning Theory
- M. Huxley, O. Yiftachel
- Economics
- 1 June 2000
During the last decade or so, many planning theorists have taken a so-called communicative turn, to the point where somiie have declared the emergence of a dominant new paradigm supported by…
Essay: Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards ‘South-Eastern’ Perspectives
- O. Yiftachel
- Political Science
- 1 November 2006
Yes, this is what they did to Tallinn . . . in a city where about 50 percent of the population is Russian, they simply removed all Russian signs, billboards, street names and Russian sounding…
‘Ethnocracy’: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine
- O. Yiftachel
- Political Science, Sociology
- 1 September 1999
During Israel’s fiftieth year of independence (1997-98), the country’s High Court of Justice was grappling with an appeal known as Qa'adan Vs Katzir. It was lodged by a Palestinian-Arab citizen who…
Urban Ethnocracy: Ethnicization and the Production of Space in an Israeli ‘Mixed City’
- O. Yiftachel, Haim Yacobi
- Sociology
- 1 December 2003
In this paper we offer a critical analysis of ethnic relations in an Israeli ‘mixed city’. Similar to other sites shaped by the logics of settling ethnonationalism and capitalism, the ‘mixed city’ is…
Towards a New Typology of Urban Planning Theories
- O. Yiftachel
- Sociology
- 1 March 1989
Urban planning theory has been widely criticised by academics and practitioners as being confused and impractical. In this review paper a tentative first step to remedy the situation is proposed,…
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