Oren Yiftachel
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Oren Yiftachel's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geography Tel Aviv University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oren Yiftachel is an Israeli professor of political and legal geography, urban studies and urban planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba. He holds the Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Chair in Urban Studies.
Oren Yiftachel's Published Works
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Published Works
- Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine (2006) (497)
- Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (2003) (495)
- Planning and Social Control: Exploring the Dark Side (1998) (430)
- Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid? (2009) (383)
- New Paradigm or Old Myopia? Unsettling the Communicative Turn in Planning Theory (2000) (332)
- Critical theory and ‘gray space’: Mobilization of the colonized (2009) (316)
- ‘Ethnocracy’: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine (1999) (225)
- Urban Ethnocracy: Ethnicization and the Production of Space in an Israeli ‘Mixed City’ (2003) (198)
- Essay: Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards ‘South-Eastern’ Perspectives (2006) (175)
- Debating Dominence and Relevance: Notes on the ‘Communicative Turn’ in Planning Theory (2000) (167)
- Understanding ‘ethnocratic’ regimes: the politics of seizing contested territories (2004) (138)
- Urban social sustainability (1993) (127)
- Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha (1998) (120)
- Towards a New Typology of Urban Planning Theories (1989) (107)
- "Ethnocracy" and Its Discontents: Minorities, Protests, and the Israeli Polity (2000) (106)
- Social Control, Urban Planning and Ethno-Class Relations: Mizrahi Jews in Israel's 'Development Towns' (2000) (94)
- Planning a mixed region in Israel : the political geography of Arab-Jewish relations in the Galilee (1992) (91)
- Debate: The concept of ‘ethnic democracy’ and its applicability to the case of Israel (1992) (71)
- Territory as the Kernel of the Nation: Space, Time and Nationalism in Israel/Palestine (2002) (67)
- Jews and Druze in Israel: state control and ethnic resistance (1998) (63)
- Urbanizing settler-colonial studies: introduction to the special issue (2017) (59)
- Planning as control: Policy and resistance in a deeply divided society (1995) (58)
- Between nation and state: 'fractured' regionalism among Palestinian-Arabs in Israel (1999) (53)
- Ethnic Frontiers And Peripheries: Landscapes Of Development And Inequality In Israel (1998) (49)
- Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev (2018) (47)
- Planning a bi-national capital: should Jerusalem remain united? (2002) (46)
- Planning Theory at a Crossroad: The Third Oxford Conference (1999) (46)
- The Internal Frontier: Territorial Control and Ethnic Relations in Israel 1 (1996) (43)
- The Aleph—Jerusalem as critical learning (2016) (39)
- ISRAELI SOCIETY AND JEWISH-PALESTINIAN RECONCILIATION: 'ETHNOCRACY' AND ITS TERRITORIAL CONTRADICTIONS (2016) (38)
- Nation‐building and the division of space: Ashkenazi domination in the Israeli ‘ethnocracy’ (1998) (36)
- From displacement to displaceability (2020) (35)
- BEDOUIN ARABS AND THE ISRAELI SETTLER STATE (2003) (34)
- The power of planning : spaces of control and transformation (2001) (34)
- Land Regime and Social Relations in Israel (2006) (34)
- Between urban and national: Political mobilization among Mizrahim in Israel’s ‘development towns’ (2004) (34)
- Between rights and denials: Bedouin indigeneity in the Negev/Naqab (2016) (34)
- Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 (2015) (31)
- Epilogue—from ‘Gray Space' to Equal ‘Metrozenship'? Reflections On Urban Citizenship (2015) (30)
- Democracy or Ethnocracy?: Territory and Settler Politics in Israel/Palestine (1998) (30)
- State Policies, Land Control, and an Ethnic Minority: The Arabs in the Galilee Region, Israel (1991) (26)
- The Shrinking Space of Citizenship: Ethnocratic Politics in Israel (2002) (25)
- The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967 (1998) (24)
- Planning A Mixed Region In Israel (1992) (24)
- DEBATESANDDEVELOPMENTS Debating Dominance and Relevance: Notes on the 'Communicative Turn' in Planning Theory* (2000) (22)
- Indigenous (in)justice : human rights law and Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab/Negev (2012) (22)
- On the impact of Israel's Judaization policy in the Galilee (1991) (20)
- Can Theory be Liberated from Professional Constraints? On Rationality and Explanatory Power in Flyvbjerg's Rationality and Power (2001) (20)
- Between Periphery and 'Third Space': Identity of Mizrahim in Israel's Development Towns (1992) (20)
- Neither Two States Nor One : The Disengagement and “ Creeping Apartheid ” in Israel / Palestine (18)
- The Role of the State in Metropolitan Planning: the Case Of Perth, Western Australia, 1930–1970 (1988) (17)
- The Myths of Zionism (2006) (17)
- The Challenge of Post‐Zionism (2004) (15)
- Urban justice and recognition Affirmation and hostility in Beer Sheva (2009) (15)
- From Sharon to Sharon: Spatial planning and separation regime in Israel/Palestine (2010) (15)
- The Power of Planning (2002) (15)
- Power Disparities in the Planning of a Mixed Region: Arabs and Jews in the Galilee, Israel (1993) (15)
- On Space, Planning and Communication: A Brief Rejoinder (2000) (14)
- The Arab minority in Israel and its relations with the Jewish majority: A review essay (1992) (13)
- Centralized power and divided space: `Fractured regions' in the Israeli `ethnocracy' (2001) (13)
- Contradictions and Dialectics: Reshaping Political Space in Israel/Palestine. An Indirect Response to Lina Jamoul (2004) (12)
- THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE CONTROL OF MINORITIES (1993) (11)
- Israel: metropolitan integration or ‘fractured regions’? An alternative perspective (1997) (11)
- Urban Consolidation-An Introduction to the Debate (1991) (11)
- INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ARAB-JEWISH ECONOMIC GAPS IN THE GALILEE REGION, ISRAEL1 (1991) (10)
- Nation-Building or Ethnic Fragmentation? Frontier Settlement and Collective Identities in Israel - eScholarship (1996) (10)
- Frontier Development and Indigenous Peoples (1997) (9)
- Socio‐spatial mix and inter‐ethnic attitudes: Jewish newcomers and Arab‐Jewish issues in the Galilee (1997) (9)
- Urban Colonialism and Buffer Zones: Gray Spaces in Hebron and Nicosia (2017) (9)
- THE PLANNING OF PERTH'S CHANGING FORM—INVENTION OR CONVENTION? (1989) (8)
- Liberal Colonialism? Israel’s 2013 Elections and the “Ethnocratic Bubble” (2013) (7)
- Polarizations, exclusionary neonationalisms and the city (2021) (7)
- International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2008) Major Item: SPACES OF ETHNIC CONFLICT (2008) (7)
- Regional mix and ethnic relations: Evidence from Israel (1994) (7)
- Boundary Change and Institutional Conflict in the Planning of Central Perth (1989) (6)
- Erased from Space and Consciousness (2015) (6)
- Planning the West: One hundred years of planning in Western Australia (1994) (6)
- Extending Ethnocracy: Reflections and Suggestions (2016) (6)
- Minority Protest and the Emergence of Ethnic Regionalism: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli ‘Ethnocracy’ (2000) (6)
- Un)Settling colonial presents (2008) (6)
- Regional Policy and Minority Attitudes in Israel (1995) (5)
- Doing the Just City: Social Impact Assessment and the Planning of Beersheba, Israel (2017) (5)
- Urban Consolidation: Beyond the Stereotypes (1991) (5)
- Naqab/Negev Bedouins and the (Internal) Colonial Paradigm (2013) (5)
- Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman. Verso, London (2007), 288 pp., ISBN: 978-1844671250 (2009) (4)
- Sacred site or sacred cow? The frontier of urban racial struggle in Australia (1997) (4)
- Too little, but not too late: Planning theory and the work of Brian McLoughlin (1997) (4)
- Recognizing Justice: Identities and Policies in Beer Sheva (2013) (3)
- Barriers, Walls, and Urban Ethnocracy in Jerusalem (2006) (3)
- Voting for Apartheid: The 2009 Israeli Elections (2009) (3)
- Town planning under military occupation: an examination of the law and practice of town planning in the occupied West Bank: by Anthony Coon Darmouth, Aldershot, UK (1992) 221 pp, £32.50 hardback ISBN 1 85521 287 0 (1994) (3)
- Frontiers, Peripheries, and Ethnic Relations in Israel: An Introduction (2019) (3)
- ‘Right‐Sizing’ Or ‘Right‐Shaping’? Politics, Ethnicity, and Territory in Plural States * (2001) (3)
- Chapter Four Between colonialism and ethnocracy : ‘ Creeping apartheid ’ in Israel / Palestine (2012) (3)
- Commentary The Aleph — Jerusalem as critical learning (2016) (3)
- Urban planning and ethnic diversity: Toronto and Tel Aviv (2005) (2)
- The Shifting Sands of Urban Politics, Planning And Identities (2002) (2)
- The state, ethnic relations and democratic stability: Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel (1992) (2)
- Defensive Urban Citizenship: A View from Southeastern Tel Aviv (2021) (2)
- Metropolitan planning: death or restructuring? (1995) (2)
- "DISPLACEABILITY - A SOUTHEASTERN PERSPECTIVE" (2018) (2)
- The New Divided City (2014) (2)
- Regional Planning and Economic Development in the South West Region, Western Australia (1991) (2)
- ‘Throwntogetherness’ in hostile environments (2022) (1)
- Chapter Sixteen Between One and Two Apartheid or Confederation for Israel / Palestine ? Transcript of Address to the Conference “ One State between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River — A Dream or Reality ? ” (2017) (1)
- Between National and Local: Political Mobilization among Mizrahim in Israel’s ‘Development Towns’ (2002) (1)
- URBAN PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL REACTIONS: Pressures for changing the planning system of Perth's CBD (1991) (1)
- Inappropriate and Unjust: Planning for Private Farms in the Naqab (2006) (1)
- Introduction (2001) (1)
- Contemporary Australia: Explorations in Economy, Society and Geography by DJ. Walmsley and A.D. Sorensen. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1990. (2016) (0)
- Between One and Two: Debating Confederation and One-State Solution for Israel/Palestine (2013) (0)
- Sager, Tore, "Communicative Planning Theory" (Book Review) (1996) (0)
- Editorial: Thinking National, Thinking Spatial (2016) (0)
- Deepening apartheid: The political geography of colonizing Israel/Palestine (2023) (0)
- 14 THE SHRINKING SPACE OF CITIZENSHIP Ethnocratic Politics in Israel (2006) (0)
- The bedouins as an Indigenous Community (2018) (0)
- ‘Terra nullius’ and planning (2017) (0)
- ‘Conceptual Topography’ and the City (2020) (0)
- International Law, Indigenous Land Rights, and Israel (2018) (0)
- A brief response to our critics (2002) (0)
- ‘Conceptual Topography’ and the City (2020) (0)
- A New Horizon for Peace: An Israel-Palestine Union (2015) (0)
- Land Regime and SociaL ReLationS in iSRaeL / alexandre ( Sandy ) (2006) (0)
- The Legal Geography of Indigenous Bedouin Dispossession (2018) (0)
- O F ( Un ) Settling colonial presents (0)
- Terra nullius ’ and planning Land , law and identity in Israel / Palestine (2017) (0)
- Changing cities of Pacific Asia: a scholarly interpretation: Tue-Man Yeung The Chinese university press, Hong Kong, 320 pp, hardback (1991) (0)
- II. From Ethnocracy to Peace through Gradual Bi-Nationalism: A Response to Oren Ben-Dor (2007) (0)
- Thrownapartness – a view from Al-Quds/Jerusalem (2022) (0)
- Between urban and national : 45 Political mobilization among 46 Mizrahim in Israel ’ s ‘ development (2003) (0)
- Round Table: Urban spaces of development cooperation? Policy making and critical thinking (2015) (0)
- Bedouin Territory and Settlement (2018) (0)
- Historical Geography of the Negev: Bedouin Agriculture (2018) (0)
- Foreword (2020) (0)
- Ethnocratic Policies and Indigenous Resistance: Bedounin Arabs and the Israeli Settler State* (2003) (0)
- A Master Plan for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev (2014) (0)
- Formulating the Dead Negev Doctrine During the Israeli Period (2018) (0)
- State and Bedouin Policies and Plans (2018) (0)
- Foreword (2020) (0)
- From fragile peace to violent apartheid: Israel and Palestine are at war. (2000) (0)
- Planning Policies, Market Processes and Public Attitudes: Evidence from Central Perth (1994) (0)
- The Land Regime of the Late Ottoman Period (2018) (0)
- On essays and Debates (2007) (0)
- Can Borders Bring Peace? (2010) (0)
- The Land Regime of the British Mandate Period (2018) (0)
- Introduction: Terra Nullius in Zion? (2018) (0)
- Book Review: The Rural State? Limits to Planning in Rural Society (1993) (0)
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