Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine: Politics and Development

ISBN-13: 9780415677325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str.

Maha Samman

Opis

This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine. The author investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial urban studies.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Colonial Urban Space 2. Post-colonial and Trans-colonial Urban Development 3. Israeli Colonial Urban Development 4. Lived Space under Israeli Colonial Rule 5. Israeli Decolonization 6. Palestinian Trans-colonialism

O autorze

Maha Samman holds an Msc in Urban Planning from Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, a PhD in Political Geography from University of Exeter, UK and is Assistant Professor at Al-Quds University, Jerusalem.