The image of the 'Palestinian' in geography textbooks in Israel
Ethnic community ; Ideology ; Image ; Israel ; Palestinians ; Perception ; Zionism
Hebrew textbooks of geography have presented Palestinians in one of several ways (ethnocentric, experiential, anthropological) that reflects the historical period in which they were written. - (DWG)
Art of war, art of resistance : Palestinian counter-cartography on Google Earth
Collaborative cartography ; Geoweb ; Israel ; Palestinian Territories ; Political geography ; Social movement ; Thematic mapping ; War
This article examines the arts of war and of resistance through the Palestinian refugees’ counter-cartography on Google Earth. It shows how the refugees have taken advantage of the State of Israel's (as well as the Palestinian leadership's
) inability to control the map, in the process rendering the geoweb a new battlefield in the conflict. It concludes with an analysis of how cartographically placing Israel's founding and perpetual violence at the fore, as the Palestinian refugees' counter
Do Palestinians live across the road? Address and the micropolitics of home in Israeli contested urban spaces
Conflict ; Detached house ; Israel ; Jews ; Palestinians ; Planning ; Political geography ; Post-colonialism ; Power
By analyzing original archival research of a specific address, along with personal narratives of Palestinian and Jewish inhabitants of this address, the paper aims to understand politics of nations through the microgeographies of home. Thus
as contact zone’ argument facilitates the examination of the language, conversation, and text derived from meetings with the Palestinian owners and with my mother, and exposes the complexities of the binary divisions of coloniality.
Bridging the gap : Palestinian and Israeli discourses on autonomy and statehood
Top-down models of autonomy indicate a devolution of power within the existing state structure. Bottom-up models of autonomy reflect a struggle for full self-determination and new state formation. Israeli and Palestinian territorial discourses
Fundamentalist colonialism : the geopolitics of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Asia ; Colonialism ; Conflict ; Geopolitics ; Israel ; Jews ; Palestine ; Palestinians ; Political geography ; Settlement history ; Territories ; West Bank ; Zionism
Place, exile and identity : the contemporary experience of Palestinians in Sydney
Australia ; Community ; Diaspora ; Ethnic community ; International migration ; Kinship structure ; National identity ; Nationalism ; New South Wales ; Palestinians ; Sydney
Applied geography ; Human rights ; Israel ; Moral geography ; Palestinians ; Political geography ; Political party ; Security ; Territories
This article examines the moral judgments of the Israeli West Bank barrier by secular Israelis. Legitimization of the barrier is based on dehumanization of the Palestinians. of moral judgment concerning the barrier. Legitimization of the barrier
is based on dehumanization of the Palestinians. This trend is especially strong among rightists in the Israeli political spectrum who are more likely to withdraw to authoritative forms of moral judgment than leftists. The worldview that allows
for the withdrawal to authoritative moral judgments that justify the barrier tend to victimize the Israelis and dehumanize the Palestinians. Such a world view serves as a mean to maintain positive self image while managing a contractible conflict.
The evolution of semi-nomadism in non-desert environment : the case of Galilee in the 19th century in Some geographical aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Frontier ; Governmentality ; Israel ; Palestinian Territories ; Policy ; Sovereignty ; Territorial control ; West Bank
The paper claims that a comprehensive analysis of Israeli forms of domination requires a spatial examination of the operation of sovereignty with an assessment of governmentalizing arrays. A Palestinian sovereignty is construed at the checkpoints