Product Description: For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. It is neither democratic nor authoritarian, with rights and capabilities depending primarily on ethnic origin and geographic location...read more

Product Description: Globalisation and increased cultural heterogeneity have had a major impact on states whose identity has been defined in terms of a single, often socially constructed, allegiance to the state and a single hegemonic ideology. Nowhere are changing notions of identity more prevalent than in Israel, a country whose dominant (Western-Jewish) society has been subject to understanding their past and present in terms of a single ideology of state formation - Zionism...read more

Product Description: The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exploring the evolution of Israel's ethnic landscapes, this interdisciplinary volume makes a contribution to the analysis of Israeli society by introducing space, territory and place into the discussion of ethnic relations. The book focuses especially on the social and geographical marginalization of groups such as Palestinian and bedouin Arabs, oriental Jews, and recent Ethiopian migrants, examining their persistent challenges to the state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study examines the influence of Israel's land and planning policies in the Galilee region on the political geography of Arab-Jewish relations. The first part develops a theoretical framework delineating three areas of "ethnic contrasts" as key determinants of political instability: competition over land control, socioeconomic gaps and power disparities...read more