Politics of Urban Space in an Ethno-Nationally Contested City: Negotiating (Co)Existence in Wadi Nisnas

Kallus, Rachel; Kolodney, Ziva

doi:10.1080/13574809.2010.487812

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“…The low-income, densely populated Palestinian neighborhood is transformed into an outdoor art gallery and colorful fair. As demonstrated by Kallus and Kolodney (2010), the festival reproduces the asymmetrical power relations between the Jewish and the Arab dwellers of Haifa. Many of the Wadi Nisnas residents complained about the unbalanced utilization of the public space of their neighborhood.…”

Section: The City and Spatial Alternativesmentioning

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Spatial Alternatives and Counter-Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine

Gazit

Latham

2014

Int Polit Sociol

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The securitization of the spaces of Israeli-Palestinian interaction, from checkpoints to the West Bank Separation Wall, continues to intensify and receive attention from journalists, scholars, and activists. Understandably, the focus is on the negative consequences of existing spatial configurations. Receiving far less attention is the development of alternative spatial formations which might advance forms of "desecuritization," especially in those spaces that are crucial hinges of IsraeliPalestinian interaction (Jerusalem and other mixed cities, the Wall, the Green Line, roads). This article explores whether alternative ways of using, organizing, experiencing, and coexisting in space-especially at the micro level-hold out promise for helping to reframe significant dimensions of Israeli-Palestinian interaction. It seeks to better understand whether disjointed forms of sovereignty that appear-or disappear -across the occupation can be met by counter-sovereignties; whether new spatial counter-realities can be articulated through everyday life; and whether forms of agency, especially contestation, can reset understandings of, and perspectives on, spaces. A range of examples are considered within Jerusalem, mixed cities, the occupied Palestinian territories and at the border, bearing on religious sites, healthcare, gentrification, security infrastructure, popular protest, and festivals.The securitization and Judaization (Yiftachel 1999) of the spaces of IsraeliPalestinian interaction-from checkpoints to the Separation Wall in the West Bank-are intensifying and receiving increasing attention from critical geographers and other social scientists (Harker 2010). The focus is mostly on the profoundly negative consequences of spatial configurations associated, in particular, with the occupation (Ophir, Givoni, and Hanafi 2009). Receiving far less attention is the existence and possibilities of spatial forms, practices, and understandings that might advance desecuritization and de-subjugation, particularly those within the crucial hinges in Israeli-Palestinian interaction (for example, 1 Authors' notes: Authors are listed in alphabetical order. They would like to thank the IPS editors and anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments.

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Section: The City and Spatial Alternativesmentioning

confidence: 90%

Spatial Alternatives and Counter-Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine

Gazit

Latham

2014

Int Polit Sociol

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“…Aside from these quotations, Haifa municipality has made some symbolic gestures (Yiftachel and Yacobi 2003;Leibovitz 2007;Rabinowitz and Monterescu 2008;Kallus and Kolodney 2010) and renamed squares and streets in downtown Haifa associated with renowned former Palestinian leaders. Although some of these symbolic gestures were intended to influence the coming municipal elections of mayors in Israel, the Arab residents of the area, according to my impression at the ceremonies, were delighted by these symbolic gestures.…”

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“…Firstly, the popular festival has been taking place in one of the poorest and most densely populated quarters of Haifa (Kallus and Kolodney 2010). Although the area belonged to the Palestinians before 1948 war, many of the buildings built in ''traditional Arab style,'' such as inner courtyards with fruit trees, the use of local stone, and traditional techniques, projecting balconies with oriental arches, are now managed by the Israeli authorities that rent them to the Palestinian citizens.…”

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The Ethnocracy of the Palestinian Urban Space and the Indigenous Approach: Praxis and Theory

Shay¹

2016

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________________________________________________________________This article is a case study of the Palestinian recent past that produces a new knowledge on the maltreatment given to the archaeological remains of the Palestinians in the Late Ottoman period (18th to 20th centuries) by the dominant culture in Israel. The inequitable representation of the PalestinianOttoman heritage by the state creates both submission and resistance to the prevailing culture by the Palestinian citizens. The new knowledge created by this case study may be further used in order to understand the diverse experience of marginality of various contemporary dispossessed and displaced groups. ________________________________________________________________Résumé: Cet article est une étude de cas de l'histoire palestinienne récente fournissant de nouvelles connaissances sur les mauvais traitements auxquels les vestiges archéologiques des Palestiniens de la période ottomane tardive (du 18e au 20e siècle) ont été soumis par la culture dominante en Israël. La représentation inéquitable du patrimoine palestinien ottoman par l'état provoque à la fois la soumission et la résistance des citoyens palestiniens à et envers la culture prédominante. Les nouvelles connaissances acquises par la présente étude pourraient aussi servir à mieux comprendre la marginalité dont plusieurs groupes aujourd'hui dépossédés et déplacés sont victimes. ________________________________________________________________Resumen: El presente artículo es un estudio de caso del pasado reciente de Palestina que produce un nuevo conocimiento del maltrato dado a los restos arqueoló gicos de los palestinos en el período otomano tardío (siglos XVIII-XX) por la cultura dominante en Israel. La injusta representació n del patrimonio palestino-otomano por parte del Estado crea sumisió n y resistencia a la cultura predominante por parte de los ciudadanos palestinos. El nuevo conocimiento creado por este estudio de caso puede ser utilizado también para comprender la variada experiencia de la marginalidad de diferentes grupos desplazados y desposeídos contemporáneos.

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“…This paper discussed the potential of including a site-specific, spatially oriented component in consolidated community planning methods in areas challenged by social conflict, suggesting that a specific urban designled tool might be useful contested areas. The fieldwork in Belfast confirmed the importance of urban design tools in reconnecting divided societies (Madanipour 2004;Kallus and Kolodney 2010). Gaffikin, McEldowney, and Sterrett (2010, 511) investigate the limits and potential of urban design in managing division, focusing on the case of Belfast.…”

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“…form and social division is useful in community planning processes that take place within a contested and divided area (Bollens 2011), Kallus and Kolodney (2010) highlight that the problem of how to approach urban design in contested cities specifically is still underestimated.…”

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