Trans-colonial Urban Space In Palestine: Politics And Development (routledge Studies On The Arab-israeli Conflict)
by Maha Samman /
2012 / English / PDF
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Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of
ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine,
this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the
colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within
the various theoretical frameworks in colonial urban studies.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of
ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine,
this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the
colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within
the various theoretical frameworks in colonial urban studies.
The book uses Henry Lefebvre’s three constituents of space –
perceived, conceived and lived – to analyse past and present
colonial cases interactively with time. It mixes the non-temporal
conceptual framework of analysis of colonialism using literature
of previous colonial cases with the inter-temporal abstract
Lefebvrian concepts of space to produce an inter-temporal
re-reading of them. Israeli colonialism in the occupied areas of
1967, its contractions from Sinai and Gaza, and the implications
on the West Bank are analysed in detail.
The book uses Henry Lefebvre’s three constituents of space –
perceived, conceived and lived – to analyse past and present
colonial cases interactively with time. It mixes the non-temporal
conceptual framework of analysis of colonialism using literature
of previous colonial cases with the inter-temporal abstract
Lefebvrian concepts of space to produce an inter-temporal
re-reading of them. Israeli colonialism in the occupied areas of
1967, its contractions from Sinai and Gaza, and the implications
on the West Bank are analysed in detail.
By illustrating the transformations in colonial urban space at
different temporal stages, a new phase is proposed - the
trans-colonial. This provides a conceptual means to avoid the
pitfalls of neo-colonial and post-colonial influences experienced
in previous cases, and the book goes on to highlight the
implications of such a phase on the Palestinians. It is an
important contribution to studies on Middle East Politics and
Urban Geography.
By illustrating the transformations in colonial urban space at
different temporal stages, a new phase is proposed - the
trans-colonial. This provides a conceptual means to avoid the
pitfalls of neo-colonial and post-colonial influences experienced
in previous cases, and the book goes on to highlight the
implications of such a phase on the Palestinians. It is an
important contribution to studies on Middle East Politics and
Urban Geography.