Rethinking Israeli Space

Erez Tzfadia is a senior lecturer in Public Policy and Administration at Sapir College in Israel. He received his PhD in Geography at Ben-Gurion University in Israel in 2002 and was a Lady Davis postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University in 2003. His research focuses on the role of nationalism and neoliberalism in spatial arenas and on social structures.Haim Yacobi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University and a Marie Curie Researcher at Cambridge University. The main issues that stand in the core of his writings that have been published in different academic journals deal with the production of urban space, social justice, the politics of identity, migration, globalization and urban planning.

• Introduction 1. Nationalism, Identity and the Production of a Periphery 2. Periphery, Architecture and Diasporic Sense of Place 3. Frontier in the Core: Russian Migrants in a Jewish-Arab 'Mixed City' 4. Labour Migration and the Urban Geographies of the Periphery 5. The Production of Global\Peripheral Agricultural Landscape 6. Revisiting Multiculturalism in the City 7. Recognition, Land Allocation and the Periphery. Conclusions: In-between Periphery and Frontier