The Military-Urban Nexus: the political-economy of real-estate, development, and the military in Beer-Sheva metropolis

Dekel, Tomer

doi:10.1080/23337486.2021.1921371

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“…Although the study of militarisation and militarism as agents of spatial production has become widespread in recent years, the military‐urban relationship is under‐studied, particularly in non‐conflict scenarios (Dekel, 2021). In summary, urban geopolitics has mainly dealt with conflict contexts, whereas critical military studies has been silent on the multidimensional aspects of militarism in relation to the urban.…”

Section: Urban Geopolitics Military Geographies and Urban Multidimens...mentioning

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“…Indeed, they develop various flows (of people, services, economies) that relate differently to the local areas in which they operate. Ultimately, as Dekel (2021) shows, the relationships between armed forces and cities can be analysed from a political economy perspective (i.e., the Military‐Urban Nexus), framing military facilities and activities as active agents within the neoliberal urban system. In this framework, the influence of a military presence on spatial practice, in terms of both its production and reproduction characteristics, can be explored through economic military geographies (Woodward, 2004) and movement flows.…”

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Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban

Spanu

2023

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Armed forces in urban areas are a very visible source of socio‐spatial and urban change. Even in contemporary cities ‘at peace’, this presence and ensuing changes can be wide‐ranging, evident across infrastructure, organisations, narratives of place, events, and everyday activities. Although over the past 2 decades critical military studies and urban geopolitics have explored some of these themes, an urban studies perspective on such military geographies in peacetime has elicited far less attention. The aim of this article is to open up opportunities for deeper conceptualisation and research on urban military geographies. This article establishes a dialogue between critical military studies and urban geopolitics, to review the different dimensions of the influence of a military presence in urban space, and to provide a synthesis of these two bodies of literature. Using Lefebvre's dialectical theory of spatial production, this review shows how cities can be privileged spaces for the reproduction of militarism and preparation for war. Moreover, it examines how the presence of military forces in peacetime can influence the material and immaterial production of urban space.

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Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban

Spanu

2023

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“…• Resolución del conflicto que se genera entre distintos actores sobre los nuevos usos, con la ciudadanía que generalmente reclama nuevos espacios para su reproducción social y el propietario, a menudo el mismo Ministerio de Defensa, quien muestra una actitud especulativa para rentabilizar al máximo las transacciones de las propiedades militares con el objetivo de realizar otras inversiones (Dekel, 2021).…”

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La enajenación del patrimonio inmobiliario militar en España: una aproximación en torno a las cuestiones de regeneración urbana

Camerín

Hernández

2023

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La investigación contextualiza las políticas de enajenación de los bienes inmuebles afectados al Ministerio de Defensa español y argumenta las oportunidades e inercias para llevar a cabo una efectiva reutilización de dichos bienes. El trabajo, pone énfasis en los resultados de los procesos de enajenación que paulatinamente se han ido produciendo en el país y que, de algún modo, pueden ser reproducibles en otros contextos internacionales a través de la correspondiente legislación e interés inmobiliario del organismo. Partiendo del contexto legal español se analizan dos casos de estudios, sobre los que abordar y caracterizar las principales características de los procesos de reutilización, demostrando un enfoque prevalentemente especulativo por parte del Ministerio de Defensa a la hora de plantear las operaciones de enajenación de estos bienes.

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The spatiality of a military base as urban geographical entity: the case of ‘The Pikkud’ in Beersheba, Israel

Knaan,

Meir,

Yiftachel

2024

GeoJournal

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Urban studies have increasingly engaged in understanding the role of the military in co-producing the city. Yet, the spatial role of an individual military base within a particular city has largely been overlooked. This deficiency is particularly acute as, due to contradictory governance regimes, a military base constitutes a contradictory non-democratic interface with a liberal urban civil space. This deficiency is due primarily to failure to view a military base as a concrete ‘geographical entity’ with a geographical agency. The Lefebvrian spatial trialectic (perceived conceived and lived spaces) is employed here as a framework for analyzing the relationships between the base and the city. We bind it theoretically and analytically with the concept of a geographical entity carrying a geographical agency. Based primarily on a qualitative methodology, we studied the spatiality of an urban military base in Beersheba, Israel, analyzing the three facets of spaces. The analysis reveals that neoliberal concepts held by urban planning professionals regarding urban space as conditioned by the presence of the military base (conceived space) are not necessarily congruent with those of the public which routinely lives and experiences (lived space) the concrete materiality of the base (perceived space). Thus, as a geographical entity within the city, a military base exists apart yet concurrently there are overlapping relations and entanglements with community life, suggesting a spatiality that extends beyond its physical territory. With these conceptual and methodological approaches and insights this study adds to the recently growing field of urban military geographies which hitherto overlooked these spatial perspectives of the military.

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The Military-Urban Nexus: the political-economy of real-estate, development, and the military in Beer-Sheva metropolis

Cited by 6 publications

References 50 publications

Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban

Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban

La enajenación del patrimonio inmobiliario militar en España: una aproximación en torno a las cuestiones de regeneración urbana

The spatiality of a military base as urban geographical entity: the case of ‘The Pikkud’ in Beersheba, Israel

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